Corporate Communications: An International Journal: Volume 23 Issue 2

Communicating/organizing for reliability, resilience, and safety: special issue introduction

Joshua B. Barbour, Patrice M. Buzzanell, William J. Kinsella, Keri K. Stephens

The communicative constitution of adaptive capacity during Sweden’s Västmanland wildfire

Jody L.S. Jahn, Catrin Johansson

The purpose of this paper is to explain how adaptive capacity is accomplished through communication processes and can contribute to enhancing disaster resilience. The authors…

A dynamic model of organizational resilience: adaptive and anchored approaches

Andrew Waguih Ishak, Elizabeth Ann Williams

Organizations of all types desire to be imbued with resilience, or the ability to withstand and bounce back from difficult events (Richardson, 2002; Walsh 2003). But resilience…

Revisiting high-reliability organizing: obstacles to safety and resilience

Jessica L. Ford

The purpose of this paper is to complicate and critique contemporary scholarship on high-reliability organizations (HROs). This paper argues that although HRO scholarship helps to…

Vigilant resilience: the possibilities for renewal through preparedness

Elizabeth Carlson

Post-crisis renewal discourse (Ulmer et al., 2007) is one form of communication that stakeholders may use as they attempt to organize for resilience. The purpose of this paper…

Crisis history tellers matter: The effects of crisis history and crisis information source on publics’ cognitive and affective responses to organizational crisis

LaShonda Louallen Eaddy, Yan Jin

The purpose of this paper is to explore crisis history further. The paper also examines the possible impact of information source on publics’ perceptions. The study seeks to…

(Dis)identification as resilience in dirty volunteer work

Jacob Stuart Ford

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of identification and disidentification processes of individuals who perform dirty work. Specifically, this study seeks to…

Communicative management of tensions by MSIs for water resilience

Rahul Mitra

The purpose of this paper is to undertake a comparative case study (Stake, 2006) of two multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) building resilient water systems to address how they…

Why are you watching? Video surveillance in organizations

Christina S. Hagen, Leila Bighash, Andrea B. Hollingshead, Sonia Jawaid Shaikh, Kristen S. Alexander

Organizations and their actors are increasingly using video surveillance to monitor organizational members, employees, clients, and customers. The use of such technologies in…