Communicating With Stakeholders During a Crisis: Evaluating Message Strategies

Topics:
Crisis Communication
Tags:
Association For Business Communication,
Management,
Stakeholder,
Strategy
Source:
Association for Business Communication

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Overview: This paper explains message strategies that are used by organizations during crises that involve technical details. Using the literature, the authors develop an integrative coding scheme that builds on Coombs' crisis-message-strategy typology. In addition, the authors develop a parallel set of strategies called technical translation message strategies. Using content analysis, the authors analyzed 154 accounts representing 10 different technical crises. The findings suggest that different crisis-message strategies are used to communicate to different stakeholders. The findings also indicate that when technical details are discussed, organizations rarely go beyond an attempt to directly state the technical facts with little or no explanation provided to the stakeholders.

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Format: PDF | Size: 159KB | Date: Oct 2005 | Pages: 30

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