Abstract This article features a comparative study of the making of business news based upon interviews (2005 to 2010) with senior business journalists in Finland and Sweden as well as communication managers at two global telecom companies, Nokia and Ericsson. The article shows the complex and fluid dynamics of social construction. There are spans when corporate power over editorial practices is strong and other periods when business reporters and their supervisors effectively exert their control over these news processes and the construction of meaning. Communicative outcomes are not determined or predictable; rather, they are influenced by a socially grounded understanding of what is “appropriate”. This case study shows that formal rules can be of limited value when assessing social processes.

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摘要本文基于对芬兰和瑞典的高级商业记者以及诺基亚和爱立信这两家全球电信公司的通信经理的采访（2005年至2010年），对商业新闻的制作进行了比较研究。文章显示了社会建设的复杂而动荡的动态。在某些时候，企业对编辑实践的控制权很强，而在其他时期，商业记者及其上司可以有效地控制这些新闻流程和意义的构建。交流结果不确定或不可预测；相反，他们受到“适当”概念的社会基础理解的影响。该案例研究表明，在评估社会过程时，正式规则的价值可能有限。