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Conference Agenda

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Date: Monday, 14/July/2025
4:00pm - 8:00pm	Registration 1: Registration and Info Desk Location: Foyer
5:30pm - 6:00pm	Plenary 1: Conference Opening Location: D5.0.001
6:00pm - 7:00pm	Plenary 2: Keynote Location: D5.0.001
7:00pm - 9:00pm	Plenary 3: Get together Location: D5.1.015

Date: Tuesday, 15/July/2025
8:00am - 6:00pm	Registration 2: Registration and Info Desk Location: Foyer
9:00am - 10:30am	Session 1: ESG Communication in Corporate Disclosure Location: D5.1.001
	ESG Communication in the Financial Industry: Trends and Insights from Corporate Reports Oliva Alvarado, Ingrid Marie University of Zürich, Switzerland Ambiguous and misleading language in ESG disclosure of article 8 and article 9 European funds Motta, Giada USI, Switzerland How ESG Ratings Inform Stakeholders Lukács, Bence Széchenyi István University, Hungary Diversity reporting across countries: The role of global rating agencies Hofer-Bonfim, Bernadette WU Vienna, Austria
10:30am - 11:00am	Break 1: Coffee Break Location: D5.1.015
11:00am - 12:30pm	Plenary 4: Practitioner Panel Location: D5.0.001 Session Chair: Nadine Strauß
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Break 2: Lunch Break
2:00pm - 3:30pm	Session 2: Earnings and Performance Communication Location: D5.1.001
	How do you know that? Strategic knowledge management in earnings conference calls Lucchini, Costanza Maria; Rocci, Andrea Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland Corpus-Based Genre Analysis of Forward-Looking and Cautionary Language in Earnings Releases Nagengast, Milena^1,2 ¹Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria; ²University of Vienna Uncovering the structure of reasoning and interaction in earnings conference calls D'Agostino, Giulia¹; Rocci, Andrea¹; Reed, Chris² ¹Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland; ²University of Dundee, Scotland The impact of the Single Supervisory Mechanism on the readability of the European banks' annual reports Silva, Ana Luísa^1,2; Alves, Carlos F.^1,2 ¹School of Economics and Management of the University of Porto, Portugal; ²Center for Economics and Finance at the University of Porto, Portugal
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Break 3: Coffee Break Location: D5.1.015
4:00pm - 5:30pm	Session 3: Finfluencing Social Media Location: D5.1.001
	Normative Implications of Finfluencer Relations Hoffmann, Christian Pieter¹; Binder-Tietz, Sandra² ¹University of Leipzig, Germany; ²University of Leipzig, Germany Virtual Influencers Give Investment Advice: An Experiment Laskin, Alexander¹; D'Agostino, Giulia² ¹Quinnipiac University, United States of America; ²Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland “Why you should buy these stocks (and my books)”. A rhetorical-argumentation approach to financial influencers. Palmieri, Rudi University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Perceived Benefits of Finfluencer Engagement and Brand Image Co-creation Nambiar, Rakesh; Shenvi, Swapnil Diwakar Kirit P. Mehta School of Law, SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) Deemed-to-be University, India
7:00pm - 11:59pm	Social Program 1: Conference Dinner

Date: Wednesday, 16/July/2025
8:00am - 5:00pm	Registration 3: Registration and Info Desk Location: Foyer
9:00am - 10:30am	Session 4.1: Strategic (Sustainable) Communication Location: D5.1.002
	Strategic Communication of Sustainable Investments: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Bank Websites Diez, Elvira; Strauß, Nadine University Zurich, Switzerland Legitimation through counterargument and concession in directors’ responses to shareholder resolutions on sustainable action Coppola, Claudia; Rocci, Andrea Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Financial communication in the banking sector. A systematic literature review and research agenda Silva, Ana Luísa^1,2; Alves, Carlos F.^1,2 ¹School of Economics and Management of the University of Porto, Portugal; ²Center for Economics and Finance at the University of Porto, Portugal The Future of ESG Reporting and Investor Relations: Trends, Challenges, and Integration with Financial Performance Communication Molnár, Péter; Lukács, Bence; Tóth, Árpád Széchenyi István University, Hungary
9:00am - 10:30am	Session 4.2: Executive Voice and Leadership in Financial Discourses Location: D5.1.003
	Practical Argumentation in CEO Letters: A Cross-Cultural Study of European Energy Companies Thielemann, Nadine¹; Berrocal, Martina² ¹WU Vienna; ²FSU Jena DESPECIALIZATION OF FINANCIAL DISCOURSE: EVIDENCE FROM CEO LETTERS TO SHAREHOLDERS Giordano, Walter¹; Mandenaki, Katerina² ¹università degli studi di napoli federico II, Italy; ²National and Kapodistrian university of athens Differentiating the Roles of Corporate Leaders in Financial Communication: CEOs, CFOs, and Chairs of the Supervisory Board Binder-Tietz, Sandra¹; Hoffmann, Christian Pieter² ¹University of Leipzig, Germany; ²University of Leipzig, Germany A refined, empirically validated metric to assess the cornering force of questions in financial dialogues D'Agostino, Giulia Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
10:30am - 11:00am	Break 4: Coffee Break Location: D5.1.015
11:00am - 12:30pm	Session 5.1: Financial Skills, Literacy and Communication in a Digital Age Location: D5.1.002
	Decoding STOXX® Europe 50 Social Executives on LinkedIn: Implications for Financial Communication and Stakeholder Engagement Keiper, Martin; Mölders, Marius; Zülch, Henning HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany Writing for Target Readers in Financial Communication. A Transdisciplinary Approach in Times of AI Whitehouse, Marlies Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Financial and Business Literacy Education for Strategic Communication Students Laskin, Alexander Quinnipiac University, United States of America
11:00am - 12:30pm	Session 5.2: Financial Communication under Pressure: Crisis and Activism Location: D5.1.003
	Financial communication in the context of geopolitical crisis Shevchenko, Tetiana Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria No ethos, no trust: the rhetorical struggle for leadership between activist shareholders and corporate directors. Palmieri, Rudi University of Liverpool, United Kingdom The Role of Financial Communication in Corporate Bankruptcy and Liquidation in Albania Duçi, Ejona; Tabaku, Eda; Troplini, Rovena University "Aleksandër Moisiu" Durres, Albania
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Break 5: Lunch Break Location: D5.1.015
1:30pm - 4:30pm	Workshop 1: Handbook Chapter Development Workshop Location: D5.1.002 Session Chair: Alexander Laskin This session is open to invited participants only.
1:30pm - 4:30pm	Workshop 2: PhD Research Escalator Location: D5.1.003 Session Chair: Christian Hoffmann This session is open to invited participants only.
5:30pm - 8:00pm	Social Program 2: Finance City Tour

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FinComm 2025

Interdisciplinary Conference on Financial Communication Research

14 - 16 Juli 2025 | Vienna, Austria

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