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Crisis Management by Apology: Corporate Response to Allegations of Wrongdoing

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
0-8058-3788-4, 0-8058-3789-2
Open Library ID
OL18204212M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2767065 bytes)
Pages
250\261
Library
Mexmat
Time added
2011-02-23 10:11:24

Description

Hearit (communication, Western Michigan U.) examines the ways in which individuals, organizations, and institutions seek to respond to criticism of an ethical nature. The author argues that, due to today's multimediated environment, apologia has changed from a private matter to a public one, and from an exchange between individuals to a social matrix that includes companies and institutions. Apologetic exchanges are seen as ''secular remediation rituals'' which are less a way to repair social relationships than they are a means of completing ''the typical wrongdoing, guilt, and restoration drama'' in order to get the individual or organization off the front page. Hearit incorporates case studies throughout the text, including many recent examples from the U.S. For practitioners, scholars, and students in public relations, business communications, and management.

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