The significance of crisis and risk communication / Robert L. Heath and H. Dan O'Hair -- Historical trends of risk and crisis communication / Michael J. Palenchar -- Cultural theory and risk / James Tansey and Steve Rayner -- Risk communication: insights and requirements for designing successful...

The Handbook of Risk and Crisis Communication explores the scope and purpose of risk, and its counterpart, crisis, to facilitate the understanding of these issues from conceptual and strategic perspectives. Recognizing that risk is a central feature of our daily lives, found in relationships,...

Purpose: Meta reviews are central for mapping the state of the field, consolidating the heterogeneous public relations body of knowledge, and pointing to new potential research directions. Habermas is one of the most influential contemporary social theorists and his work has repeatedly been...

Purpose: There is a great potential in pulling together science communication and strategic communication, especially given how the former has gained importance in organizational contexts. Strategic communication, including rhetorical theory, can offer insights that are invaluable to understand...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to improve upon lobby theory by learning from a failed lobby campaign in which the lobbyist managed to annoy and anger key constituencies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a qualitative case study, conducted on attempts made by the Norwegian...