Corporate Communications: An International Journal: Volume 3 Issue 1

Risks and reputations: the economics of transaction costs

Terry Burke

Uncertainty means that transaction costs have to be incurred by organisations whenever they make an agreement. These costs include time and money spent searching, drawing up and…

Management communication and the psychological contract: the case of air traffic control

Jerry Hallier

Corporate communications models conflict with the management research literature in assuming that managers hold unitary beliefs about organizational interests. In reality, while…

Preannouncements: their role in reputation management

Paul Herbig, Brad O'Hara

A preannouncement is a formal, deliberate, publicly‐issued communication given before an actual event. Preannouncements are an increasingly applied concept of communication…

Lobbying for conflict accommodation — a contingency model

Miia Jaatinen

Presents a modern definition of lobbying suitable for the use of organizational lobbyists and a theory of lobbying as conflict accommodation which arouses ethical considerations…

Communication and democracy

Richard C. Warren

Communication in trade union government is important as both a value and principle of organisation. Studies of trade union democracy tend to show a marked neglect of the…