Hurricane Flood Protection for Texas City, Texas

The aim of this paper is to study if and how impression management varies during different phases of the legitimation process, in particular during the legitimacy building and legitimacy repairing phases (Suchman, 1995). We aim at understanding whether and how the disclosure tone adopted by a company in the two different moments is diverse and thus functional to the intrinsic objective of the each phase. The empirical analysis focuses on the case of British Petroleum Plc. We investigated the impression management practices undertaken by the company both during the preparation of the rebranding operation, i.e. a situation in which the company is trying to build legitimacy; and during the happenings of two legitimacy crises, like the explosion of the refinery in Texas City and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The evidence appears in line with the theoretical prediction of legitimacy theory. Results show that while the company tends to privilege image enhancement techniques during the legitimacy-building phase, it uses more obfuscation techniques when managing a legitimacy-repairing process. Moreover, the analysis suggests that the company makes more extensive use of impression management techniques in the disclosures addressed to shareholders, investors and other market operators than in the disclosures addressed to the wide range of other stakeholders.

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Organ Toxicity from Benzene Exposure among Elderly Subjects after a Flaring Disaster at the BP Refinery Plant in Texas City

10.24816/jcgg.2017.v8i1.05 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Mark D'Andrea ◽

Kesava Reddy

Keyword(s):

Elderly Subjects ◽

Benzene Exposure ◽

Organ Toxicity ◽

Refinery Plant ◽

Texas City

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Novel solutions to a traditional method of property-level flood protection: technical insights into innovative door aperture guards

The Sustainable City IX ◽

10.2495/sc141052 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

D. W. Beddoes ◽

C. A. Booth

Keyword(s):

Traditional Method ◽

Flood Protection

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Effectiveness of Flood Protection Project Valuation Methods

Olsztyn Economic Journal ◽

10.31648/oej.3152 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 275-289

Author(s):

Tadeusz Liziński ◽

Marcin Bukowski ◽

Anna Wróblewska

Keyword(s):

Essential Element ◽

Weather Conditions ◽

Point Of View ◽

Flood Protection ◽

Costs And Benefits ◽

Protection Measures ◽

Investment Projects ◽

Market Values ◽

Project Valuation ◽

The Subject

Projects for flood protection are increasingly the subject of investment projects in the field of water management. This is related to the increasing frequency of worldwide threats caused by extreme weather conditions, including extremely high rainfall causing floods. Technical and nontechnical flood protection measures are also increasing in importance. In the decision-making process, it is necessary to take into account both the costs and benefits of avoiding losses, including an analysis of social benefits, whose valuation of non-market goods is an essential element. A comprehensive account of projects in the field of flood protection based on the estimated costs and benefits of the investment allows the economic efficiency from a general social point of view to be determined. Previous evaluations of the effectiveness of investment projects have mainly taken into account only categories and market values. The aim of the article is to identify the possibilities to expand the values of non-market assessments and categories formulated on the basis of the theoretical economics of the environment.

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