.... Paragraph 3 analyses the different communication strategies following a shock event, drawing from signalling and attribution theories and it illustrates the hypotheses. In Paragraph 4, we propose the research methodology. Paragraph 5, instead, shows the results and discussion of the empirical analysis...

..., the practices of media-brokered selection and interpretation of events. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology used is a quantitative content analysis of selected German print media. Corporate reporting is analysed with the help of attribution theory approaches from the field of psychology, which...