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Item type: Publication , Access status: Open Access , Customers’ non-GAAP disclosures and suppliers’ investment efficiency(2026-04-20) Zhang, Lijuan; Li, Kenuo; Li, Lingwei; Wang, WeixiaoWe examine whether customers’ non-GAAP earnings disclosures influence their suppliers’ investment efficiency. We find that suppliers exhibit greater investment efficiency when their major customers disclose non-GAAP earnings, particularly when the disclosures are of higher quality. The effect is stronger when suppliers are more dependent on their customers, operate in durable goods industries, or when customers face lower analyst coverage. Further analysis shows that customer non-GAAP disclosures are associated with a reduced likelihood of both supplier underinvestment and overinvestment. These findings highlight the informational value of customer non-GAAP disclosures for supplier investment decisions.Item type: Publication , Access status: Open Access , Place, Affect, and Belonging: Popular Literature and First Nations at Both Sides of the Pacific(2026-07-28) Tocco, FabricioThis article will offer a reading on how crime fiction re-signifies stereotypes about Indigenous peoples and places that had often been constructed through popular genres such as crime fiction. I examine two novels from different yet relatable contexts: Scream Black Murder (1995) and Hot Line (2002). Published in English and Spanish, these texts were written by First Nations authors: Kamilaroi writer and academic Philip McLaren and Chilean novelist of Mapuche descent Luis Sepúlveda. Both foreground Indigenous characters and places through literary representations of affect against the sentimentalisation of minoritised identities. I read these novels as part of a growing body of popular texts that Tocco and Uxó call ‘trans-Indigenous crime fiction’ (Subalternity, relationality and (trans-)Indigeneity in Latin American crime fiction: Re-reading The Uncomfortable Dead. Crime Fiction Studies, 6 (1), 72–89), a sub-genre which has been brewing over the last decades on both sides of the Pacific, from Australia and the United States to Chile and Mexico, now including Indigenous authors who reclaim popular literary genres to subvert its tropes (Watson, Citation2019a, Deadly detectives: How Aboriginal Australian writers are re-creating crime fiction. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 15 (1), 75). While acknowledging the specificities of different local contexts, my reading will examine their transnational commonalities in terms of affective resistance related to belonging and place, against settler state brutality.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Communicating and Constituting the Law: Rhetoric and the Plain Language Movement in Australia(2025-11-01) Dawes, LauraIn the 1980s and early 1990s, senior figures within the Australian judiciary, academia and legislative drafting advocated that legal writers use a ‘plain language’ style for judicial opinion, legal documents, and legislation. This meant writing in ‘plain, straightforward English’ rather than legalese. This article argues that the plain English movement drew on ancient rhetorical traditions as well as modern prescriptions about good writing. It uses legal scholar James Boyd White’s theory of ‘constitutive rhetoric’ to suggest that the movement sought to constitute the law as accessible, egalitarian, and public- oriented. However, although the movement’s tenets were adopted by the executive and incorporated in legislative drafting guidelines, it had little impact within the judiciary. Further, its heyday was coterminous with increasing complexity of legislation and growing restriction in access to legal services, counter to the movement’s democratic ideals. This episode in legal history therefore illustrates tensions between the intentions and views of the various branches of government and participants in our nation’s legal life.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Does share pledging affect workplace safety?(2025) Li, Kenuo; Zhang, LijuanThis paper explores the impact of share pledging on workplace safety. Using establishment-level data on workplace safety, we find that firms with executive share pledging exhibit higher workplace injuries/illnesses. Our channel analyses suggest that the higher injury/illness cases in pledging firms are associated with increased employee workloads and poor corporate safety cultures. Further analysis shows that the documented association between share pledging and workplace safety is weaker for firms that have more analyst coverage, face higher levels of pressure from labor unions, and operate in counties that have higher levels of social capital. Conversely, the association is more pronounced when firms meet or just beat analyst earnings forecasts and when CEOs are approaching retirement age. The results are robust to using injury rate as an alternative measure for workplace safety, controlling for accrual-based earnings management and financial constraints, and using firm-level analyses. Overall, our findings suggest a positive association between share pledging and compromised workplace safety, potentially driven by efforts to support short-term stock performance.