Corporate Communications: An International Journal: Volume 26 Issue 4

Internal communication torn between employees' and management's expectations: an empirical study of employee magazines

Benno Viererbl, Thomas Koch, Nora Denner

Editors of employee magazines may be torn between diverging expectations among their stakeholders. The management might be interested in strategically supportive communication…

Building crisis capacity with data breaches: the role of stakeholder relationship management and strategic communication

Audra Diers-Lawson, Amelia Symons, Cheng Zeng

Data security breaches are an increasingly common and costly problem for organizations, yet there are critical gaps in our understanding of the role of stakeholder relationship…

Corporate social responsibility advertising in social media: a content analysis of the fashion industry's CSR advertising on Instagram

Kyeongwon Kwon, Jaejin Lee

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has received significant attention and has become a global trend that challenges the role of business. The purpose of this study is to…

Gender-biased office culture in Croatian PR industry: why feminine sectors practice masculine patterns?

Mirela Polić, Mirela Holy

This paper aimed to research attitudes of women working in the Croatian public relations (PR) industry regarding office culture (networking, banter, dress codes, etc.).

Red, white and green: environmental communication on wine bottle labels from New York's Hudson River Region

Kevin Visconti

New York is the third top wine producing state in America. Competitive wine production across the United States has challenged New York winemakers to secure a place in the…

Hometown advantage? Exploring the relationship between location, CSR/CSI and stakeholders’ behavioral intentions

Amy O'Connor, Renee Mitson, Cory Gilbert

The purpose of this exploratory study is to investigate the relationship between location (hometown or elsewhere), evaluation of corporations, expectations for corporations in…

Legitimacy, autonomy and trust: a recipe for organizations to operate in the public interest

Christopher Wilson, Devin Knighton

This study aims to examine the effect of publics' legitimacy evaluations on Arthur W. Page's conceptualization of “reasonable freedom of action” by breaking it into two parts: (1…

Effects of workplace rumors and organizational formalization during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of universities in the Philippines

Jenette Villegas Puyod, Peerayuth Charoensukmongkol

This study examines the effects of workplace rumors and organizational formalization on the degree of role ambiguity and emotional exhaustion that university employees in the…