Corporate Communications: An International Journal: Volume 11 Issue 3

Corporate communication practice and pedagogy at the dawn of the new millennium

Michael B. Goodman

To explore the case for, and value of, corporate communication practice in professional development.

Theory and practice converge: a proposed set of corporate communication principles

Bojinka Bishop

To report on empirical research which tested the use and value of ten specific characteristics of communication, the principles of authentic communication, and based on the…

Communication of corporate social responsibility by Portuguese banks: A legitimacy theory perspective

Manuel Castelo Branco, Lúcia Lima Rodrigues

The purpose of this paper is to ascertain whether Portuguese banks use their web sites as a medium to disclose social responsibility information and identify what types of this…

Corporate communication through nonviolent rhetoric: Environmental, agency and methodological prerequisites

Krishna S. Dhir

The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the problems associated with the prevailing rhetoric in corporate communication. It proposes the consideration of nonviolent…

The use of humor in corporate communication

John McIlheran

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how humor can be used to help improve understanding of a message, as well as to validate the findings of the Booth‐Butterfield humor…

An inter‐linguistic and inter‐cultural analysis of global corporate web sites

Miranda Y.P. Lee, Daniel W.C. So, Lornita Y.F. Wong

This paper aims to identify inter‐linguistic and inter‐cultural commonalities and differences between web sites targeting, respectively, English and Chinese viewers, and to…

Card sort technique as a qualitative substitute for quantitative exploratory factor analysis

Gilmar J. Santos

The purpose of this paper is to advocate that qualitative research tools can replace and merge with quantitative ones, in order to simplify the task of gathering and processing…

Risk regulations and financial disclosure: An investigation based on corporate communication in French traded companies

Elisabeth Combes‐Thuélin, Sandrine Henneron, Philippe Touron

Risk orientated disclosure is a focal issue of corporate communication. Many provisions have been implemented in the USA and in Europe to promote transparency about risks faced by…

Introduction

Michael B. Goodman