Corporate Communications: An International Journal: Volume 20 Issue 1

Corporate identity, corporate identity scholarship and Wally Olins (1930-2014)

John M.T. Balmer

– The role of Wally Olins (1930-2014) vis-à-vis corporate identity scholarship is appraised. The paper aims to discuss this issue.

Corporate reputation and CSR reporting to stakeholders: Gaps in the literature and future lines of research

Andrea Pérez

The purpose of this paper is to provide a literature review of the underdeveloped stream of research that analyses corporate reputation as an outcome of corporate social…

Financial communication in initial public offerings: Risk estimate in the interplay of organizational trust, organizational reputation and media influences

Suk-Chong Tong

The purpose of this paper is to propose a model of financial communication to investigate the process of communicating risk signals between listed companies and their individual…

Addressing the complexities of managing domestic and multinational corporate brands

Morteza Khojastehpour, Ahmed Shahriar Ferdous, Michael Polonsky

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the differences between managing domestic corporate brands (DCBs) and multinational corporate brands (MCBs), and presents a framework…

Examining the impact of negative, user-generated content on stakeholders

Michel M Haigh, Shelley Wigley

– The purpose of this paper is to (n=472) examine how negative, user-generated content on Facebook impacts stakeholders’ perceptions of the organization.

An inquiry into the transformation of the PR roles’ concept

Christian Fieseler, Christoph Lutz, Miriam Meckel

Recent years have seen resurgent interest in professionalism in public relations, with several initiatives to enquire about the state of the communication profession and its part…

Balancing between organizations and society: exploring Chinese organizations’ legitimacy efforts

Shuo Yao, John Brummette, Yi Luo

Based on the literature on organizational legitimacy, organizations must adhere to the value-driven standards inherent in the cultures in which they operate. Organizations’ Web…

Communication and PR from a Cross-Cultural Standpoint: Practical and Methodological Issues

Dr Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen

Country of origin and internationalisation of CCIJ 2006-2014

Wim J L Elving