Editorial

Corporate Communications: An International Journal

ISSN: 1356-3289

Article publication date: 1 October 2006

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Citation

Elving, W.J.L. (2006), "Editorial", Corporate Communications: An International Journal, Vol. 11 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ccij.2006.16811daa.001

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2006, Emerald Group Publishing Limited


Editorial

This issue marks my beginning as editor of CCIJ. Firstly, I would like to thank the previous editor Sandra Oliver for her hard work over the past few years. CCIJ would not have been such a good quality journal without her! I am honored and proud to be the editor of CCIJ for the 11th volume of the journal. It has proved itself to be a leading journal for scholars in corporate communication for more than a decade.

CCIJ is a peer reviewed academic journal about all aspects of corporate communication. Corporate communications is a management function that offers a framework for the effective coordination of all means of communications with the overall purpose of establishing and maintaining favorable reputations with stakeholder groups upon which the organization is dependent (Cornelissen, 2004). This definition makes a whole area of subjects of study suitable for CCIJ, such as marketing communication, public relations, public affairs, external communication, and internal communication and so on.

CCIJ aims to be the leading journal for the field of corporate communication, and combines academic as well as practical insights from internal and external communication, and integration or corporate communication.

This issue

In this issue, we have five papers; two of them were recently awarded at the CCI conference on corporate communications 2006, at Wroxton College in Wroxton (UK). The paper which won the best academic prize is “Multinational corporation as a multilingual Organization: the notion of common corporate language” from Riika Fredrikkson, Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen and Rebecca Piekkari from Finland. The second paper from this conference was awarded as the highly commended practitioner paper from Micheal Meath, “Taking time to care: best practices in long-term care communications.” We will have more papers from the CCI conference in the upcoming issues. I would like to take the opportunity of thanking Michael Goodman, Director of the CCI for his instant help in processing these papers for CCIJ. Furthermore, we have a paper about change communication and corporate storytelling from Roy Langer and Signe Thorup from Denmark, a paper from Renate Fox from Croatia about corporate ideologies as part of corporate communication, and a paper about the contribution of internet in crisis communication from Kristjen Feld from Norway and Mike Molesworth of the UK. Finally, we have our first book review from Joep Cornelissen, who reviewed a South African book on Integrated Organisational Communication, which was published by Juta Publishers (2006).

Submissions of papers

Papers, which are currently not under consideration at another journal, can be directly e-mailed to the editor (w.j.l.elving@uva.nl), preferably in word format. You do not have to send in two copies of the paper (with and without author information) because all papers will be stripped of this information, including the author information which is within the properties of the document. We will try to reduce the review process to about three months, but this depends greatly on the willingness of reviewers to review these papers within the given time limits. Authors will be asked to serve as reviewers themselves, so we can minimize the burden on associate editors and members of the EAB. Please consult the journal homepage before you send in your paper. Emerald introduced structured abstracts some time ago, so please make sure that your paper has the structured abstract as well. More information about the submission process can be found at www.emeraldinsight.com/ccij/notes.htm

The review process

Papers which are submitted to CCIJ will be judged by me as editor before they are send out to reviewers. I will try harder to eliminate papers in this first round which are not within the scope of the journal, or which do not have the manuscript requirements. After this first round the papers which fulfill both criteria will be send out for a double blind review procedure, which means that the reviewers do not have information about the author, the institution the author work in and so on. The decision about the papers will be send to authors as soon as the reviewers respond. When the decision is a major or minor revision, the authors will be asked to resubmit their revised paper, including a document in which they make clear what they did with the remarks of the reviewers. Finally, when the paper is accepted, authors have to fill in a journal acceptance form.

New developments at CCIJ

With the start of my editorship we will introduce some new features within CCIJ. First, we will introduce a book review section and a PhD thesis review section. New books within corporate communication could be reviewed, as well as PhD theses within the field. If you recently published a book or finished your PhD thesis, please send two copies directly to the editor. We will eventually try to have two to three books/PhD thesis reviewed within each issue.

Furthermore, we will try to publish more special issues. We already have the best papers from the CCI conference within a special issue, but we also think that there are some issues within the field which deserve a special issue.

Finally, since my start as editor I had a lot of positive feedback on CCIJ and on the potential the journal has. I very much would like to build on this feedback and like to, together with the associate editors, the Editorial Advisory Board, the reviewers, Kate Snowden as Managing Editor, and the others at Emerald build on these positive reflections and make CCIJ, the leading academic and practitioners' journal within the corporate communication field.

Wim J.L. Elving

Reference

Cornelissen, J.P. (2004), Corporate Communications, Theory and Practice, Sage, London.

CCIJ would like to thank the following reviewers, who have been involved in reviewing in the 2006 issues

Barbara BaernsRob de LangeLars ChristensenJudy MotionPaul DavisBetteke van RulerRenata FoxJian WangPertti HumeAnnette van den BoschEric KoperAngelica CortesJuan LopisJan van DijkIrene PollachAmir HetsroniPiet VerhoevenPhilip KitchenDavid van BennekomShirley LeitchJoep CornelissenNicolas PapadopoulosSabine EinweilerPekka TuominenMichael GoodmanAlan WilsonMenno de Jong

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