Financial Communication: A Critical Assessment
About this ebook
Highlighting the importance of financial communications in the corporate hierarchy where it is often a direct function of the Finance Director, this book critically assesses its ideological role in normalising the idea and role of ‘the market’ and promotes the neoliberal view that the sole function of the public company is to increase shareholder value. It opens up new theoretical perspectives by considering retail investor behaviour from the perspective of fandom theory through the behaviour of investors during financial booms, busts and bubbles.
This volume will be of interest to researchers in the fields of PR, financial communication, accounting and financial management as well as practitioners working in financial PR and investor relations.
About the author
Keith Butterick is an award‐winning former business journalist. As a director of a financial PR consultancy, he worked on all aspects of the public company life, financial calendar work, company flotations and contested takeovers. He lectured on journalism and PR at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author of two books, Introducing Public Relations: Theory and Practice by SAGE and Complacency and Collusion: A Critical Introduction to Finance and Business Journalism. A consultant on engagement and participation, he advises companies and organisations on effective participation strategies.
