Corporate Communications: An International Journal: Volume 18 Issue 2

CSR communication: quo vadis?

Urša Golob, Klement Podnar, Wim J. Elving, Anne Ellerup Nielsen, Christa Thomsen, Friederike Schultz

This paper aims to introduce the special issue on CSR communication attached to the First International CSR Communication Conference held in Amsterdam in October 2011. The aim of…

Transcending transmission: Towards a constitutive perspective on CSR communication

Dennis Schoeneborn, Hannah Trittin

Extant research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication primarily relies on a transmission model of communication that treats organizations and communication as…

The pseudo‐panopticon: the illusion created by CSR‐related transparency and the internet

W. Timothy Coombs, Sherry J. Holladay

The purpose of this paper is to examine how corporate social responsibility (CSR) transparency claims are propagating a belief in a modern panopticon for ensuring responsible…

CSR communication strategies for organizational legitimacy in social media

Elanor Colleoni

Organization legitimacy is a general reflection of the relationship between an organization and its environment. By adopting an institutional approach and defining moral…

Advertising corporate social responsibility: Results from an experimental manipulation of key message variables

Alan Pomering, Lester W. Johnson, Gary Noble

The purpose of this paper is to examine how social topic information (STI) and corporate social responsibility commitment (CSRC) substantiate the firm's CSR claims and promote…

“Sharing is caring”: Corporate social responsibility awareness explaining the relationship of information flow with affective commitment

Claartje L. ter Hoeven, Joost W.M. Verhoeven

The effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication on external stakeholders' perceptions and behaviours have been studied extensively; however, researchers have…

Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere, 3rd ed.

Carmen Daniela Maier