Corporate Communications: An International Journal: Volume 20 Issue 4

Assessing organizational innovativeness – evidence from corporate narratives

Malte Stefan Ackermann, Michael Stephan, John M. Penrose

The purpose of this paper is twofold: to quantify the communication of organizational innovativeness (OI) on a large scale; and to examine the relationship of communicating OI and…

The CCO: appointed or organic leader? The rise of conversational leadership

Rossella C. Gambetti, Silvia Biraghi

Studies that inquire in-depth into whether the Corporate Communications Officer (CCO) is an entrusted corporate executive and enacts a genuine leadership of his/her own style are…

Collective remembering of organizations: Co-construction of organizational pasts in Wikipedia

Michael Andreas Etter, Finn Årup Nielsen

How organizations’ pasts are presented to the public is crucial, because this presentation shapes corporate reputations. Increasingly, various actors contribute to the public…

Engaging employees in China: The impact of communication channels, organizational transparency, and authenticity

Linjuan Rita Men, Chun-ju Flora Hung-Baesecke

Academics and professionals across management and communication fields have increasingly recognized significant contributions of engaged employees to organizations. The purpose of…

Cadbury and pig DNA: when issue management intersects with religion

Tony Jaques

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the evolving role of religion in issue management and introduces a case in Malaysia to examine the emerging corporate risk when western…

The rehabilitation of the “nation variable”: Links between corporate communications and the cultural context in five countries

Jochen Hoffmann, Ulrike Röttger, Diana Ingenhoff, Anis Hamidati

Despite an impressive body of international research, there is a lack of empirical evidence describing the ways in which organisational environments influence the practices of…

The networked communications manager : A typology of managerial social media impression management tactics

Christian Fieseler, Giulia Ranzini

The rise of social media has caused a shift in organizational practices, giving rise, in some cases, to genuinely “mediatized” organizations. The purpose of this paper is to…

Crisis, Credibility and Corporate History

Tom Watson

At the helm of ten years leading CCIJ

Wim J L Elving