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Crawford Spence
Researcher at King's College London
Publications - 45
Citations - 2495
Crawford Spence is an academic researcher from King's College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social accounting & Corporate social responsibility. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 45 publications receiving 2065 citations. Previous affiliations of Crawford Spence include Concordia University & Concordia University Wisconsin.
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Context, not predictions: a field study of financial analysts
Shahed Imam,Crawford Spence +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a field study with 49 financial analysts (both buy-side and sell-side) was undertaken in order to understand the work that they actually do in the context of the market for information and further open up research in this area to qualitative and sociological inquiry.
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Emotional economic man: Calculation and anxiety in fund management
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on 51 interviews with fund managers in various global financial centres and highlight a number of features of investment decision making that mainstream finance and behavioural approaches both fail adequately to describe.
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The Big 4 in Bangladesh: caught between the global and the local
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the work practices of Big 4 firms in Bangladesh with the aim of exploring the extent to which Global Professional Service Firms can be thought of as being genuinely "global".
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Towards a more systematic study of standalone corporate social and environmental: An exploratory pilot study of UK reporting
TL;DR: In the years since 1990 (the year Norsk Hydro, British Airways and Noranda first produced stand alone reports) the rise in the number of voluntary standalone reports has been astonishing as discussed by the authors.
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Resonance tropes in corporate philanthropy discourse
Crawford Spence,Ian Thomson +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored corporate charitable giving disclosures in order to question the extent to which corporations can claim that their philanthropy activities are charitable at all, by means of a tropological analysis that focuses on the different linguistic tropes within the philanthropy disclosures of 52 companies, namely metaphor and synecdoche.