Public Relations and Communication Management - Current Trends and Emerging Topics

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. Grunig
Chapter 2: Feminist Phase Analysis in Public Relations: Where Have We Been? Where Do We Need to Be? Larissa A. Grunig
Chapter 3: The Relationship Between Public Relations and Marketing in Excellent Organizations: Evidence from the IABC Study James E. Grunig & Larissa A. Grunig
Chapter 4: Refurnishing the Grunig Edifice: Strategic Public Relations Management, Strategic Communication and Organization Leadership Nigel M. de Bussy
Chapter 5: Symmetry, Social Media, and the Enduring Imperative of Two-way Communication Sandra Duhe & Donald K. Wright
Chapter 6: Aligning Public Relations with the Demands of Globalization: Conceptual Foundations for a Theory of Global Public Relations Krishnamurthy Sriramesh, Yunna Rhee, & Minjung Sung
Chapter 7: Conceptualizing Publics and Constructing Public Relations Theory: Situational Theory of Problem Solving and its new Research Jeong-Nam Kim & Lan Ni
Chapter 8: Measuring the Edifice: Public Relations Measurement and Evaluation Practices over the course of 40 Years Fraser Likely & Tom Watson
Chapter 9: Strategic Communication and Conflict Resolution: Contributions to Institutionalization in Public Relations Kenneth D. Plowman & Robert I. Wakefield
Chapter 10: Power and Influence in Public Relations Bruce Berger & Bryan Reber
Chapter 11: A philosophy of Reflective Ethical Symmetry: Comprehensive Historical and Future Moral Approaches in the Excellence Theory Shannon Bowen & Tiffany Derville Gallicano
Chapter 12: Globalization, Public Relations, and Activism for Social Change: A culture-centered Approach Mohan J Dutta
Chapter 13: The Effects of Organization-Public Relationship Types and Quality on Crisis Attributes Chun-ju Flora Hung-Baesecke & Yi-Ru Regina Chen
Chapter 14: Public Relations Historiography: Perspectives of a Functional-Integrative Stratification Model Guenter BenteleChapter 15: Organizational Contexts and Strategic Impacts Dejan Vercic & Ana Tkalac Vercic
Chapter 16: Institutionalization, Organizations, and Public Relations Anne Gregory, Emanuele Invernizzi, & Stefania Romenti
Chapter 17: Strategic Communication: Pillars and Perspectives of an Alternative Paradigm Derina R. Holtzhausen & Ansgar Zerfass
Chapter 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 Ferrari
Chapter 20: The Process of Conducting the Excellence Study: A Personal Reconstruction of Leadership David Dozier & Lou Williams
Chapter 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).

Product details

• Authors: Krishnamurthy (Purdue University Sriramesh, Krishnamurthy Zerfass Sriramesh
• Assisted by: Jeong-Nam Kim (Editor), Kim Jeong-Nam (Editor), Krishnamurthy Sriramesh (Editor), Sriramesh Krishnamurthy (Editor), Ansgar Zerfaß (Editor), Zerfass Ansgar (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.05.2013
• EAN: 9780415630894
• ISBN: 978-0-415-63089-4
• No. of pages: 430
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Public Relations, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Relations