Communicating in the Face of Global Crises
Organization, Strategy, and 'Doing the Right Thing'
1st Edition
Published on 8. December 2025
Book
Hardback
298 pages
978-1-032-99728-5 (ISBN)
Description
Communicating in the Face of Global Crises explores the complex ways organizations and their strategic practices are communicatively constituted in relation to the ethical expectations of global publics.
Positioning organizational strategies as communicative accomplishments, an international team of authors redirect attention to the important role of communication in constituting responses to global crises and to the ways global crises are themselves contested and embedded in conflicting discourses about their nature and resolution. Bringing an important and much needed communicative orientation to the exploration of global crises, the book provides valuable guidance for understanding and addressing today's most pressing issues facing our global communities.
This cohesive volume uniquely bridges the theoretical traditions of strategic communication and the communicative constitution of organization. It will interest researchers and postgraduate students exploring the intersection of organizational communication and global crises.
Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Positioning organizational strategies as communicative accomplishments, an international team of authors redirect attention to the important role of communication in constituting responses to global crises and to the ways global crises are themselves contested and embedded in conflicting discourses about their nature and resolution. Bringing an important and much needed communicative orientation to the exploration of global crises, the book provides valuable guidance for understanding and addressing today's most pressing issues facing our global communities.
This cohesive volume uniquely bridges the theoretical traditions of strategic communication and the communicative constitution of organization. It will interest researchers and postgraduate students exploring the intersection of organizational communication and global crises.
Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
13 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 6 s/w Tabellen, 13 s/w Abbildungen
6 Tables, black and white; 13 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
634 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-99728-5 (9781032997285)
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Additional editions
John G. McClellan | Cecilia Cassinger | Visa Penttilae
Communicating in the Face of Global Crises
Organization, Strategy, and 'Doing the Right Thing'
E-Book
12/2025
Routledge
€60.99
Available for download
John G. McClellan | Cecilia Cassinger | Visa Penttilae
Communicating in the Face of Global Crises
Organization, Strategy, and 'Doing the Right Thing'
E-Book
12/2025
Routledge
€60.99
Available for download
Persons
John G. McClellan is an Associate Professor of Organizational Communication at Aalborg University, Denmark.
Cecilia Cassinger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Strategic Communication at Lund University, Sweden.
Visa Penttilae is a postdoctoral researcher at LUT University, Finland.
Monica Porzionato is a researcher at Lund University, Sweden.
Cecilia Cassinger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Strategic Communication at Lund University, Sweden.
Visa Penttilae is a postdoctoral researcher at LUT University, Finland.
Monica Porzionato is a researcher at Lund University, Sweden.
Content
Introduction: Communicating in the Face of Global Crises
Part I: Complicating Global Crises and Communication
1. The Whole World Is Watching: Approaching Global Crises in the Contemporary Media Environment
2. From Propaganda to Branded War: Promotional Visibility and the Russia-Ukraine War
3. Pandemic Corporate Citizens: Performing Corporate Citizenship during the COVID-19 Pandemic
4. Communicating Organizational Strategy: Navigating Global Financial Crises
5. Rethinking Communication in the Face of Global Crises
Part II: Strategizing Global Crises Communication
6. Algorithmic Strategizing: Preventative Communication during a Health Crisis
7. Social Media-Based New Crisis Initiatives in the Pandemic: Survival of the Un-Fittest?
8. Corporate Sociopolitical Advocacy and News Media Framing: FIFA's Qatar 2022 Controversies
9. The Communicative Constitution of Collective Resilience
10. Communicatively Responding to Global Fake News Crises: The Importance of Cultural Sensitivity
Part III: Communicating Ethical Responses to Global Crises
11. Organizational Care Ethics in Times of Geopolitical Crises: A Feminist Perspective
12. Constituting Responsibility in Social Media Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic
13. Right Thing, Wrong Motive? CSR and Disaster Relief Engagement
14. Mobilizing Communities: Social Media and COVID-19 in North India
15. Valuing Vulnerable Perspectives: Planning and Responding to Extreme Heat Events
Index
Part I: Complicating Global Crises and Communication
1. The Whole World Is Watching: Approaching Global Crises in the Contemporary Media Environment
2. From Propaganda to Branded War: Promotional Visibility and the Russia-Ukraine War
3. Pandemic Corporate Citizens: Performing Corporate Citizenship during the COVID-19 Pandemic
4. Communicating Organizational Strategy: Navigating Global Financial Crises
5. Rethinking Communication in the Face of Global Crises
Part II: Strategizing Global Crises Communication
6. Algorithmic Strategizing: Preventative Communication during a Health Crisis
7. Social Media-Based New Crisis Initiatives in the Pandemic: Survival of the Un-Fittest?
8. Corporate Sociopolitical Advocacy and News Media Framing: FIFA's Qatar 2022 Controversies
9. The Communicative Constitution of Collective Resilience
10. Communicatively Responding to Global Fake News Crises: The Importance of Cultural Sensitivity
Part III: Communicating Ethical Responses to Global Crises
11. Organizational Care Ethics in Times of Geopolitical Crises: A Feminist Perspective
12. Constituting Responsibility in Social Media Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic
13. Right Thing, Wrong Motive? CSR and Disaster Relief Engagement
14. Mobilizing Communities: Social Media and COVID-19 in North India
15. Valuing Vulnerable Perspectives: Planning and Responding to Extreme Heat Events
Index