Journal of Communication Management: Volume 23 Issue 4

Social media effects?: Exploring the relationships among communication channels, scientific knowledge and BSE risk perceptions

Miri Moon, Jae-chul Shim

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships among media exposure, general scientific knowledge and the public’s risk perceptions of bovine spongiform encephalopathy…

Predicting public support: applying theory to prosocial behaviors

Brooke W. McKeever, Robert McKeever, Geah Pressgrove, Holly Overton

The purpose of this paper is to apply communication theory to explore and help explain public support for causes and organizations in the form of prosocial behaviors, including…

Communicating role expectations in a coworking office

Justin Walden

The purpose of this paper is to understand the motivations behind teleworkers’ role transitions in a coworking office and how these motivations shape role communication between…

A spiral of voice? When employees speak up on internal social media

Vibeke Thøis Madsen, Winni Johansen

The purpose of this paper is to explore the discursive tactics that employees use when they speak up on internal social media (ISM) to gain support for their cause, and how this…

Communicating the corporate strategy: An international benchmark study in the UK, the USA, and Germany

Karolin Köhler, Ansgar Zerfass

The purpose of this paper is to address an important but seldom explored field of study: the communication of corporate strategies to external and internal stakeholders. The…

The conceptual heritage of public relations: using public memory to explore constraints and liberation

W. Timothy Coombs, Sherry J. Holladay

The purpose of this paper is to describe three foundational concepts that contribute to conceptual heritage of the field of public relations (publics, organizations and…

Measurement and predictors of resilience among Latin American public relations professionals: An application of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC)

Angeles Moreno, Cristina Navarro, Juan-Carlos Molleda, M. Cristina Fuentes-Lara

It is well established that greater resilience buffers the negative effects of adverse events and conditions, allowing the affected individual to recover adequately. Resilience is…

Smart, friendly, biased liars? Exploring motivated reasoning and ethical decision-making in public relations

Kerstin Thummes, Jens Seiffert-Brockmann

The purpose of this paper is to present research on motivated bias and self-deception in ethical decision-making in public relations. Self-deception might explain how…

Examining relationships among cultural factors and expectations of CSR

Minsoo Kim, Candace White, Chansouk Kim

Studies have explored expectations of corporate social responsibility (CSR) among cultures, but findings are mixed. A more nuanced view of cultural dimensions rather than using…

Connecting the dots: a bibliometric review of Habermasian theory in public relations research

Alexander Buhmann, Øyvind Ihlen, Craig Aaen-Stockdale

Meta reviews are central for mapping the state of the field, consolidating the heterogeneous public relations body of knowledge, and pointing to new potential research directions…