Corporate Communications: An International Journal: Volume 27 Issue 4

Editorial: Toward an EDI agenda in corporate communications

Martina Topic

Intensions versus actual behavior: undergraduate business ethics course and students' reported workplace behavior

Anthony L. Fulmore, Julia A. Fulmore, Enoch K. Asare

The theory of planned behavior was used as a guiding framework to explore how undergraduate business students, employed full-time, perceived the influence of their first class in…

Conscience-driven corporate social advocacy: analyzing moral conviction and perceived motives as predictors of organization-public relationships

Holly Overton, Anli Xiao

This study examines how congruent moral conviction between an individual and a company impacts organization-public relationships (OPR). Using arguments from the Attribution…

Communicating customer-CSR expectations on corporate websites: an analysis of the banking industry in the United Arab Emirates

Effrosyni Georgiadou

The purpose of this paper is to explore customer–corporate social responsibility (-CSR) expectations communicated on the corporate websites of the banking sector in the United…

Can corporate–nonprofit partnerships buffer socially irresponsible corporations from stakeholder backlash?

Rong Wang, Amy O'Connor

This study aims to investigate the complex relationship between corporate–nonprofit partnership characteristics (type, duration and source of communication); attitude toward the…

Firm-serving or public-serving? Analyzing public responses to employee volunteer program communication

Duli Shi

Drawing on the elaboration likelihood model, this study aims to examine how employee volunteer program (EVP) type, corporate visual identity, and issue involvement affect external…

Is ethical leadership accentuated by perceived justice?: Communicating its relationship with organizational citizenship behavior and turnover intention

Manisha Seth, Deepa Sethi, Lalit Kumar Yadav, Nishtha Malik

This study aims to analyze the impact of ethical leadership on organizational citizenship behavior and turnover intention of employees working in the financial sector, considering…

Cobbler's kids: public relations reputation among PR students

Jacek Barlik

The purpose of this paper is to find out whether public relations (PR) students feel ready and adequately prepared for their future jobs and how they cope with the reputational…

Board gender diversity and women in leadership positions – are quotas the solution?

Eva Hamplová, Václav Janeček, Frank Lefley

The question has been asked, “Where are the women?” explicitly looking at the public relations (PR) industry, but this is a broader issue reflected in many senior management…

Exploring effects of message framing on supportive behaviors toward environmental corporate social responsibility

Young Kim, Myoung-Gi Chon

The purpose of this study was to shed light on how effective environmental corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication can be achieved through persuasive communication…

How environmental gain messages affect cause involvement, attitude and behavioural intentions: the moderating effects of CSR scepticism and biospheric values

Katja Anna Stadlthanner, Luisa Andreu, Xavier Font, Manuel Alector Ribeiro, Rafael Currás-Pérez

This study examines the direct effect of outcome message frames (gain vs loss) on cause involvement and the moderating roles of consumers' corporate social responsibility (CSR…

The framing of plastic pollution responsibility: comparing corporate versus environmental movement discursive evaluations

Silvia Ravazzani, Carmen Daniela Maier

This article aims to investigate evaluative framing of global plastic pollution as discursively performed by two opposed categories of social actors, namely corporations versus…