...Cynthia P. Schneider Purpose This article analyzes an approach to public diplomacy that involves leveraging local voices. It demonstrates the power of culture, particularly in collective settings such as festivals, to engage citizens in countering violent extremism, building peace and tolerance...

...Minsoo Kim; Candace White; Chansouk Kim Purpose Studies have explored expectations of corporate social responsibility (CSR) among cultures, but findings are mixed. A more nuanced view of cultural dimensions rather than using Hofstede’s aggregate country scores can offer a stronger empirical...

... Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Risk communication Internet Culture Mass media Social media Each year, 1 in 10 people fall ill and 420,000 die due to foodborne disease agents. Children under the age of five are at particularly high risk...

... that it is important for organisations to show that they care about community relations. Dr Philippa (Pip) Mules can be contacted at: pip.mules@aut.ac.nz 11 09 2018 11 09 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Teaching Culture...

... cultural values depicted in leaders’ messages intended for different groups of stakeholders is lacking. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the themes and cultural values expressed through corporate leaders’ web-based messages in a non-western context. Design/methodology/approach...

... and analyzed two data sets. First, a frequency analysis was conducted to determine the most prevalent cultural dimensions (Hofstede, 2011) present in JD’s interviews (n=116). Second, several χ² tests were run on an additional sample of analysis (n=1,044) which comprised...

...). Because framing can influence public opinion and even policy, is important that communicators are aware of the frames that are used in the discourse, and deliberate on their own current and future frame use in order to nuance the debate. This study will focus on frames embedded in culture, in which...

...Kevin D. Lo; Richard D. Waters; Nicklas Christensen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how Hofstede’s six cultural dimensions are reflected on the official corporate Facebook pages from 259 organizations on Fortune magazine’s Global 500 list. This is the first attempt...

...Jennifer Vardeman-Winter; Katie Place Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how practitioner culture is maintained despite legal, technical, and educational issues resulting from the deluge of social media. The authors examined the nexus of practitioner culture, social media usage...

... and government officials that can measure empirically the nature of their relationships in a number of countries. This essay opens a door for future studies and cross-cultural comparisons about the role that clientelism plays in the PR practice of cultures and countries. Practical implications – The paper...

.../approach – The authors offer a critical analysis and discussion of recent publications in order to explore the nexus of “public”, “culture” and “global”, questioning whether the increased interest in a specific understanding of culture actually contributes to the field’s ability to deal with complex...

.... They also reinforce the cultural specificity of ethics. Both these findings confirm the importance of participatory, ground‐up, discussion‐based approaches to developing organisational ethical standards. The article discusses some implications of these findings for internal communicators involved...

... attitudes about the profession to the decade when the term “public relations” was first popularized. The paper remedies this deficit. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Public relations Public opinion Mass media Culture Well into the first decade of the twenty‐first century...

...Richard Fletcher Purpose The paper highlights the need for cultural sensitivity in designing web sites that are likely to be read by different cultural groups within one's own country or by people outside one's own country. Design/methodology/approach The link between culture and communication...

...Caroline Hodges Purpose To advance the cultural approach to public relations research and practice through linking societal culture and occupational culture of public relations to the communication practices of practitioners, in the aim of understanding the contribution made by public relations...

...Chun‐ju Flora Hung This study of multinational companies in China focuses on the role culture plays in relationship cultivation. The author interviewed 40 participants from 36 multinational companies in China. The findings revealed that characteristics of Chinese culture, such as family orientation...

... effective multicultural professionals it is essential for experiences and perspectives from other continents to be integrated into PR education. The complexities of societal factors such as culture, political systems and media systems make Asia a challenging place to conduct strategic PR. It is time...

... and response matrices. Those factors include media structure and function, as well as cultural syndromes. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Crisis International Media Culture Communication Firestone International media coverage of the Firestone tyre recall Received (in revised form): 1st December, 2001...

...Alison Rankin Frost Culture is still an issue for organisations both internally and externally, and becoming increasingly complex as markets, customers and employees go ‘global’. Culture is a multidimensional concept: organisations need to negotiate their own corporate culture; the national...

...Phil Harris; Silke Ziegler‐Pierce; Irene Harris This paper reviews organisational culture research and explores how it can aid the understanding of regional television organisations' practice of public relations. A comprehensive review of the organisational culture literature is made and frameworks...