Journal of Communication Management: Volume 15 Issue 1

Political communication management: The strategy of the two main candidates during the 2007 French presidential elections

Călin Gurău, Nawel Ayadi

This paper seeks to investigate the communication strategy of the two main candidates in the 2007 French presidential elections, deconstructing the process of communication in its…

The inimitable outsider: contracting out public affairs from a consultant's perspective

Jochen Hoffmann, Adrian Steiner, Otfried Jarren

Academic research on public affairs which aims to reconstruct the rationale for the involvement in public affairs, and the possible outsourcing thereof, focuses mainly on the…

Managing issues in the face of risk uncertainty: lessons 20 years after the Alar controversy

Tony Jaques

This paper aims to take a 20‐year perspective to revisit the Alar controversy, one of the most hotly argued public issues of the late 1980s, and to explore what fresh conclusions…

Experiential learning in public relations education in South Africa

Dalien René Benecke, Rose‐Marie Bezuidenhout

This paper seeks to present a view on the experiential learning practices in public relations education in South Africa. The focus of the study on which the article is based is to…

Level of crisis responsibility and crisis response strategies of the media

Seon‐Kyoung An, Karla K. Gower, Seung Ho Cho

This paper aims to identify how the news media cover organizational crisis responsibility and crisis response strategies and, if at all, how they differ by crisis types.

Understanding e‐mail overload

R. Vidgen, J. Sims, P. Powell

This paper seeks to investigate the impact of e‐mail on individuals and organizations and to provide a framework that frames e‐mail management as a complex and multi‐stranded…

A new company descriptor takes us into a new era

Rebecca Marsh