Future-Time Framing: The Effect of Language on Corporate Future Orientation

The authors thank Organization Science Senior Editor Ruth Aguilera and the anonymous reviewers for their feedback and guidance. The authors thank Dennis de Buijzer, Xi Cheng, Xiaodong Li, Weibin Mo, and Xiaoming Yang for help with collecting the data. For helpful comments, the authors thank Fabio Braggion, Keith Chen, Xi Cheng, Nicolas Craen, Donal Crilly, Ilya Cuypers, Frank de Jong, Magali Delmas, Scott Derue, Joost Driessen, Sadok El Ghoul, Steffen Giessner, Edith Ginglinger, Denis Gromb, Uli Hege, Inga Hoever, Tyler Hull, Yiannis Ioannou, Mark-Humphery Jenner, Thore Johnsen, Sarah Kaplan, Daan van Knippenberg, Matt Lee, Joril Maeland, Alberto Manconi, Mary-Hunter McDonnell, Chad Navis, Lars Pedersen, Jo-Ellen Pozner, Johan Pilloys, Francisco Santos, Oliver Spalt, Steef van de Velde, Servaes van der Muelen, Ying Yang, and conference and seminar participants at the 74th Academy of Management annual meeting (Philadelphia), Harvard Business School, University of Michigan (Ross), National University of Singapore, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Pennsylvania State University, Singapore Management University, Stockholm School of Economics, Erasmus University–Rotterdam School of Management, University of Antwerp, University Paris–Dauphine, Stanford University, Ghent University, Stockholm University, New York University (Stern), and Tilburg University (CentER). An earlier version of this paper was entitled “Speaking of Corporate Social Responsibility” (SSRN.2403878).