Responding to crisis : a rhetorical approach to crisis communication /

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Imprint:Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.
Description:vii, 379 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:LEA's communication series
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5001430
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Other authors / contributors:Millar, Dan Pyle, 1938-
Heath, Robert L. (Robert Lawrence), 1941-
ISBN:0805840591 (alk. paper)
0805840605 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-368) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • 1.. A Rhetorical Approach to Crisis Communication: Management, Communication Processes, and Strategic Responses
  • 2.. Exposing the Errors: An Examination of the Nature of Organizational Crises
  • Part I. Crisis Preparation: Planning for the Inevitable
  • 3.. Crisis Management: Toward a Multidimensional Model of Public Relations
  • 4.. Constructing Response During Uncertainty: Organizing for Crisis
  • 5.. Reframing the Organizational Exigency: Taking a New Approach in Crisis Research
  • 6.. Burkian Counternature and the Vigilant Response: An Anticipatory Model of Crisis Management and Technology
  • 7.. Reasoned Action in Crisis Communication: An Attribution Theory--Based Approach to Crisis Management
  • 8.. A Model for Crisis Management
  • 9.. Patterns of Conflict Preceding a Crisis: A Case Study Analysis
  • Part II. Crisis Response: The Time to Speak
  • 10.. Metaphors of Crisis
  • 11.. Telling a Story: A Narrative Approach to Communication During Crisis
  • 12.. Informed Organizational Improvisation: A Metaphor and Method for Understanding, Anticipating, and Performatively Constructing the Organization s Precrisis Environment
  • 13.. A Symbolic Approach to Crisis Management: Sears Defense of Its Auto Repair Policies
  • 14.. Telling the Story of Organizational Change
  • 15.. Managing Organizational Images: Crisis Response and Legitimacy Restoration
  • Part III. After the Dance is Over: Postcrisis Response
  • 16.. Ambiguity as an Inherent Factor in Organizational Crisis Communication
  • 17.. Image Restoration Discourse and Crisis Communication
  • 18.. Exigencies, Explanations, and Executions: Toward a Dynamic Theory of the Crisis Communication Genre
  • 19.. Downsizing or Reduction-in-Force: A Crisis Residual
  • 20.. Excellent Crisis Communication: Beyond Crisis Plans
  • 21.. Issue Management During Sudden Executive Departures: Sensemaking, Enactment and Communication
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index