The ‘Transparency Effect’ in Pharmaceutical ESG Reports
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F26%3AUBK6NT6F" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/26:UBK6NT6F - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://iperstoria.it/article/view/1510" target="_blank" >https://iperstoria.it/article/view/1510</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2025.i25.1510" target="_blank" >10.13136/2281-4582/2025.i25.1510</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The ‘Transparency Effect’ in Pharmaceutical ESG Reports
Original language description
As the pharmaceutical sector has become increasingly competitive, companies have adopted a plethora of strategies and practices not only to publicise their products but also to be perceived by stakeholders as transparent and, by way of implication, honest and ethical. Drawing on a corpus of English-language Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reports, this study investigates the complexity and dynamism of the discursive strategies used by leading pharmaceutical companies listed on the stock exchange to build and enhance an image of transparency and credibility. By distinguishing between the level of the utterance – what is being communicated – and the enunciational level (Greimas & Courtés 2007; Greimas 1983), which regards the writer and the context of enunciation, this paper conducts a semio-linguistic analysis in an attempt to explore different construals of transparency and opacity. The discourse of pharmaceutical companies is revealed as a sophisticated communicative construct, where various strategies are employed to create meaning effects that are used to foster an image of transparency and boost stakeholders’ trust.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
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Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Iperstoria
ISSN
2281-4582
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2025
Issue of the periodical within the volume
25
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
270-291
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105014221999