Rebecca M. Rice – författare

The book offers an in-depth analysis of the challenges of establishing authority within collaborative efforts. It introduces the concept of cumulative authority, arguing that communicating authority effectively is key to the creation and success of collaborations.Rice uses a communication-as-constitutive of organizations perspective to reconsider organizational authority, typically thought of in terms of leadership, as instead negotiated in communication among collaboration members as they attempt to influence the collaboration’s direction. Drawing from an extensive two-year case study of emergency management collaborations, the book traces potential influences on collaborative authority, including members’ knowledge and expertise, organizational structures and hierarchies, and the material world, including documents, technologies, and the natural environment.This book is a valuable empirical resource for organizational communication and management students and scholars. It will also appeal to community collaborators and organizers, and contains advice and reflection questions for practitioners.

The book offers an in-depth analysis of the challenges of establishing authority within collaborative efforts. It introduces the concept of cumulative authority, arguing that communicating authority effectively is key to the creation and success of collaborations.Rice uses a communication-as-constitutive of organizations perspective to reconsider organizational authority, typically thought of in terms of leadership, as instead negotiated in communication among collaboration members as they attempt to influence the collaboration’s direction. Drawing from an extensive two-year case study of emergency management collaborations, the book traces potential influences on collaborative authority, including members’ knowledge and expertise, organizational structures and hierarchies, and the material world, including documents, technologies, and the natural environment.This book is a valuable empirical resource for organizational communication and management students and scholars. It will also appeal to community collaborators and organizers, and contains advice and reflection questions for practitioners.

From designing ethical communication to addressing scandals through crisis communication strategies, this text explores the multiple communication challenges and opportunities companies encounter when faced with a scandal.This book combines theories, strategies, and tactics of risk and crisis communication with corporate communication and ethics to create a holistic view of why scandals occur and how readers can join organizations as ethical communicators and leaders. It contains 70 real-world examples of corporate scandals, as well as templates for designing social media, safety, and organizational apology plans. The book concludes with 2 full-scale exercises that students and/or organizations can use to practice crisis communication strategies. For future crisis communicators, the book offers a look at the cycle of preparedness and response to crisis, while also filling gaps in designing ethical organizational cultures that can avoid scandals in the first place.Managing Corporate Scandal is designed for corporate communications, crisis and risk communication, and public relations classes at the upper-division undergraduate or beginning graduate level.Accompanying digital resources include further case study video links, additional crisis exercises, reflections, and assignments. Please visit www.routledge.com/9781041225317.