Echoes of Populism in Corporate Reporting: Evidence from Poland
How do contemporary political forces shape what companies say about themselves? In a new paper, Echoes of Right-Wing Populism in Annual Reports of Polish Listed State-Controlled Companies, published in Accounting in Europe, we explore how right-wing populism has leaked into corporate narrative disclosures in a European context. Drawing on the populist syndrome model, the study analyses annual reports of Poland’s largest listed state-controlled companies before and after 2015, when a right-wing populist party came to power. We identify four recurring narrative threads that subtly and selectively echo populist rhetoric. We demonstrate that these incremental narrative elements resonate with both the…
