Abstract
Mass media can play an important role in capturing the dynamic between social groups and institutional environments. This paper presents a quantitative content analysis of international news to determine and analyze the themes covered by the international news press in relation to violence in Mexico and to explore entrepreneurs’ reaction to the covered news. We also analyze journalists’ treatment of this news (Semetko & Valkendurg, 2000) and differences among newspapers from the U.S., Mexico and the European Union (EU). A sample of 200 news histories was constructed by integrating international and Mexican newspapers from 2006 to 2012. Our results showed that overall, U.S. and EU newspapers present more news related to violence towards entrepreneurs than Mexican outlets, which more often adopt the avoid strategy (Oliver, 1991). The conflict frame was more widely used in EU newspapers than in U.S. and Mexican newspapers, and the economic frame was more present in the U.S. and Mexican press than in the EU press. The morality frame was used more frequently by Mexican journalists than U.S. and European journalists. The results made it possible to observe the effects of framing on the dynamic between informal and formal institutions (North, 1990) in the context of organized crime and violence in Mexico.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication date | 2014 |
| Number of pages | 40 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| Event | The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2014: The Power of Words - Philadelphia, United States Duration: 1 Aug 2014 → 5 Aug 2014 Conference number: 74 http://aom.org/annualmeeting/ |
Conference
| Conference | The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2014 |
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| Number | 74 |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Philadelphia |
| Period | 01/08/2014 → 05/08/2014 |
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