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Public Relations and Communication Management serves as a festschrift honoring the work of public relations scholars James E. Gruning and Larissa A. Grunig. Between them, the Grunigs have published 12 books and more than 330 articles, book chapters, and various academic and professional publications, and have supervised 34 doctoral dissertations and 105 master's theses. 
To honor the Grunig's scholarship, this volume continues to expand their body of work with essays from renowned colleagues, former students, and research associates.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Furnishing the Edifice: Ongoing Research on Public Relations as a Strategic Management Function 
James E. GrunigChapter 2: Feminist Phase Analysis in Public Relations: Where Have We Been? Where Do We Need to Be? 
Larissa A. GrunigChapter 3: The Relationship Between Public Relations and Marketing in Excellent Organizations: Evidence from the IABC Study 
James E. Grunig & Larissa A. GrunigChapter 4: Refurnishing the Grunig Edifice: Strategic Public Relations Management, Strategic Communication and Organization Leadership 
Nigel M. de BussyChapter 5: Symmetry, Social Media, and the Enduring Imperative of Two-way Communication 
Sandra Duhe & Donald K. WrightChapter 6: Aligning Public Relations with the Demands of Globalization: Conceptual Foundations for a Theory of Global Public Relations 
Krishnamurthy Sriramesh, Yunna Rhee, & Minjung SungChapter 7: Conceptualizing Publics and Constructing Public Relations Theory: Situational Theory of Problem Solving and its new Research 
Jeong-Nam Kim & Lan NiChapter 8: Measuring the Edifice: Public Relations Measurement and Evaluation Practices over the course of 40 Years 
Fraser Likely & Tom WatsonChapter 9: Strategic Communication and Conflict Resolution: Contributions to Institutionalization in Public Relations 
Kenneth D. Plowman & Robert I. WakefieldChapter 10: Power and Influence in Public Relations 
Bruce Berger & Bryan ReberChapter 11: A philosophy of Reflective Ethical Symmetry: Comprehensive Historical and Future Moral Approaches in the Excellence Theory 
Shannon Bowen & Tiffany Derville GallicanoChapter 12: Globalization, Public Relations, and Activism for Social Change: A culture-centered Approach 
Mohan J DuttaChapter 13: The Effects of Organization-Public Relationship Types and Quality on Crisis Attributes 
Chun-ju Flora Hung-Baesecke & Yi-Ru Regina ChenChapter 14: Public Relations Historiography: Perspectives of a Functional-Integrative Stratification Model 
Guenter BenteleChapter 15: Organizational Contexts and Strategic Impacts 
Dejan Vercic & Ana Tkalac VercicChapter 16: Institutionalization, Organizations, and Public Relations 
Anne Gregory, Emanuele Invernizzi, & Stefania RomentiChapter 17: Strategic Communication: Pillars and Perspectives of an Alternative Paradigm 
Derina R. Holtzhausen & Ansgar ZerfassChapter 18: The Pretoria School of Thought: From Strategy to Governance to Sustainability 
Estelle de Beer, Benita Steyn, & Ronel RensbergChapter 19: The Grunig Legacy in Academic Studies and Professional Practice in Latin America 
Maria Aparecida FerrariChapter 20: The Process of Conducting the Excellence Study: A Personal Reconstruction of Leadership 
David Dozier & Lou WilliamsChapter 21: The Influence of Excellence: A Citation Analysis of Excellence Study in Public Relations Scholarship, 1992 - 2011 
Yi-Hui Christine Huang & Joanne Chen Lu
About the author
Krishnamurthy Sriramesh, Ph. D., is Professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication, Purdue University. Dr. Krishnamurthy Sriramesh is recognized for his scholarship on global public relations. He serves as the Assistant Editor of 
Public Relations Review and is Associate Editor of the 
Journal of Communication Management. 
Ansgar Zerfass, Dr., is Professor of Communication Management at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Ansgar Zerfass has published 30 books and more than 140 articles and book chapters on corporate communications, online communication, evaluation and measurement.
Jeong-Nam Kim is an associate professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University. He has published 29 journal articles and 8 book chapters, and is working on four books, including the book on the situational theory, 
Situational theory of problem solving: Communicative, cognitive, and perceptive bases (Routledge, forthcoming).