On February 15 Marita Vos, full professor of Organizational Communication and PR at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, gave a guest lecture about her research on issue arenas at the Corporate Communications department. Read on to find out more about her ideas about the future of organizational communication research.
The presence of social media at the workplace has given the employees voice of their own to share work-related thoughts online. It is not surprising that managers wish to govern these behaviors in order to gain advantage and minimize risks. Are these the main motivations behind the social media policies that organizational leaders implement? Is […]
Ronald E. Rice is the Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication in the Department of Communication at University of California. He has been elected divisional officer in the International Communication Association and the Academy of Management, elected President (2006-2007) and a Fellow of the International Communication Association (2010), winner of […]
Non-profit organizations like Greenpeace or the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) play a key role when it comes to protecting the environment. But is the legitimacy of the actions of similar organizations compromised by their political institutionalisation? Read on to find the answer! Anke Wonneberger explores this topic in the chapter “Environmental non-profit […]