Corporate Communication: Strategic Adaptation for Global Practice

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The chief communication officer at a Fortune 500 multinational corporation today faces the challenges of a rapidly changing global economy, a revolution in communications channels fueled by the Internet, and a substantially transformed understanding of what a 21st-century corporation stands for. This book provides an accessible framework for describing these forces and the specific communication challenges that they have thrown at the global corporation.
The text reviews the evolution of society's response to the development of the modern company and the corporate communication practices that grew up in response to it, as well as examining the impact of globalization, Web 2.0 and the networked enterprise on current corporate relationships with key stakeholders such as customers, employees, shareholders, communities and regulators. In examining these forces and how they are interwoven, the authors offer insights and strategies for deploying effective communication as a strategic business asset in today's global economy. Designed for the advanced student of corporate communication, the book contains updated guidelines for the management of investor relations, community relations and other corporate relationships in the age of social media. Specific recommendations for how to organize and execute effective communication for the contemporary practitioner working in the communication field are also provided.
 

Contents

Thinking about Corporate Communication
1
Chapter
23
Understanding the Forces That Shift the Context of Corporate
41
Corporate Communication and Web 2 0
43
Chapter Four
59
Chapter Five
75
Corporate Cultures Increased Significance
80
Chapter
87
2 Depiction of Company Change Appetite
124
Chapter Nine
133
1 Recovery from Reputation CrisesWinners and Losers
139
Strategic Adaptation for Global Practice
141
Guidelines
154
PART 5Guidelines
161
Further Reading and Websites
195
A Strategy Summit
217

Models for Corporate
95
Chapter Seven
97
Chapter Eight
109
1 Guiding Principles for Crisis Communication on the Web
115
Tactical Planning
223
Index
231
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