Why do businesses choose to invest in the public good? What is it that they get out of it? Well, in the case of companies like Ben and Jerry’s ethical behavior or ‘corporate social responsibility’ was simply a part of the founders’ mission. But there are many global businesses that spend millions social responsibility initiatives, who sponsor charitable causes, or
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When many think about crisis communication, they think about what happens once a crisis emerges and traditional research in the field asks a number of questions like: However, I think this is a limited way of thinking about crisis communication that artificially separates it from the risk and crisis communication cycle, which is something that I talk about in the
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On 19 November, 2020 Silvia Ravazzani and Alessandra Mazzei (IULM – Milan) host a guest talk on whistleblowing in conjunction with the Centre for Employee Relations and Communication (CERC), the Geert Hofstede Consortium, and Transparency International – Italy. The guest speakers were Audra Diers-Lawson from Leeds Beckett University and Giorgio Frashchini from Transparency International.
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The 2020 Covid pandemic has accelerated some of the ongoing changes in the retail industry and consumer expectations and habits.
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In the six years that have passed since the tragic explosion of the BP-owned deep water platform in the Gulf of Mexico, much has been written about the spill, the organization, and BP’s response to it — including a few of my own academic publications. My project, which has involved about 50 Master’s students and colleagues from the US and
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Audra Diers-Lawson 