Journal of Communication Management: Volume 14 Issue 4

Stakeholders, politics and power: Towards an understanding of stakeholder identification and salience in government

Nigel M. de Bussy, Lorissa Kelly

This paper seeks to explore the meaning of the stakeholder concept in politics, using theories drawn from the fields of management, political science and public relations. In…

Reputation and stakeholder engagement: an Italian case study

Stefania Romenti

This paper aims to argue that corporate communication reaches its full potential in building corporate reputation, when it moves beyond the influencing of public opinion's…

Recasting public relations roles: agents of compliance, control or conscience

Marianne D. Sison

The purpose of this paper is to reconceptualize public relations roles, particularly the organizational conscience role, by examining practitioner involvement in organizational…

What makes for trusting relationships in online communication?

Sigrid Bekmeier‐Feuerhahn, Angelika Eichenlaub

Trust is an ability that characterises human beings as social creatures. It is becoming a key variable in a society strongly influenced by online communication, and in the…

Codes of conduct: managing the contradictions between local and corporate norms

Gregor Halff

The purpose of this paper is to find out whether, which and how international corporations use their codes of conduct to guide employees double‐bound by contradicting cultural…

The influence of organizational conditions on public relations practitioners' dissent

Jin‐Ae Kang, Bruce K. Berger

This study sets out to understand the extent to which public relations practitioners use dissent tactics in the face of organizational unethical decisions, and to examine how…

International Communications Strategy: Developments in Cross‐cultural Communications, PR and Social Media

Philip Young

Effective Organisational Communication: Perspectives, Principles & Practices (3rd edition)

Peter Simmons, Sharon Schoenmaker