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Communicating in the Face of Global Crises: Organization, Strategy, and ‘Doing the Right Thing’ book cover

1st Edition

Communicating in the Face of Global Crises Organization, Strategy, and ‘Doing the Right Thing’

Edited By John G. McClellan, Cecilia Cassinger, Visa Penttilä, Monica Porzionato Copyright 2026
312 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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

Biography

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 Penttilä is a postdoctoral researcher at LUT University, Finland.

Monica Porzionato is a researcher at Lund University, Sweden.

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