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Public Relations Review

Volume 35(3), 2009


CONTENTS

Xue, Ke, and Yu, Mingyang	A content analysis of public relations literatures from 1999 to 2008 in China	171-180

	This paper uses the content analysis method to review the research papers on public relations published in the past 10 years, concludes the current situation and trend of public relations research, and reveals the variations and laws of public relations research in China

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Hung, Chun-ju Flora, and Chen, Yi-Ru Regina	Types and dimensions of organization-public relationships in greater China	181-186

	Public relations are the major force in the establishment of organization-public relationships (OPRs) in the United States and other countries

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Chen, Ni	Institutionalizing public relations: A case study of Chinese government crisis communication on the 2008 Sichuan earthquake	187-198

	Research is needed on the "institutionalization" of public relations as a strategic-management function

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Tang, Lu, and Li, Hongmei	Corporate social responsibility communication of Chinese and global corporations in China	199-212

	This paper explored how leading Chinese and global companies operating in China communicate their corporate social responsibility (CSR) principles and practices to the Chinese stakeholders through a content analysis of these companies' corporate websites

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Peijuan, Cai, Ting, Lee Pei, and Pang, Augustine	Managing a nation's image during crisis: A study of the Chinese government's image repair efforts in the "Made in China" controversy	213-218

	The image of a nation is crucial in the conduct of international relations (Wang, J (2006)

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Li, Hongmei, and Tang, Lu	The representation of the Chinese product crisis in national and local newspapers in the United States	219-225

	This paper examines how national and local newspapers in the United States frame Chinese product recalls in 2007

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Zhang, Ai, Shen, Hongmei, and Jiang, Hua	Culture and Chinese public relations: A multi-method "inside out" approach	226-231

	This study adopts an "inside out" approach to examine contemporary Chinese public relations and culture's effect on it, based on an analysis of the top 15 domestic Chinese public relations agencies' Web sites and 17 in-depth interviews of public relations professionals from multinationals operating in mainland China

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Liu, Xi, Chang, Zhuo, and Zhao, Ping	Is it simply a matter of managerial competence? Interpreting Chinese executives' perceptions of crisis management	232-239

	Applying in-depth interviews with 22 Chinese executives, this study intends to interpret their perceptions of the four aspects of crises: causes, consequences, caution and coping

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Zhang, Ernest, and Benoit, William L.	Former Minister Zhang's discourse on SARS: Government's image restoration or destruction?	240-246

	This study analyzes the image repair discourse by Chinese Health Minister Zhang Wenkang's discourse on SARS

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Wang, Jian, and Chaudhri, Vidhi	Corporate social responsibility engagement and communication by Chinese companies	247-250

	Premised upon the centrality of relationship management in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and public relations functions, and the growing momentum toward CSR in China, this study reports survey results of corporate communication/public relations executives in Chinese companies on aspects of CSR accountability and transparency

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Pan, Po-Lin, and Xu, Jie	Online strategic communication: A cross-cultural analysis of U.S. and Chinese corporate websites	251-253

	This study applied a cultural divergence approach to examine online marketing interactivity and corporate public image on corporate websites

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DiStaso, Marcia W., Stacks, Don W., and Botan, Carl H.	State of public relations education in the United States: 2006 report on a national survey of executives and academics	254-269

	A survey of 312 public relations executives and educators examined how well practitioners and instructors perceive public relations students to be prepared for the practice, the content and value of public relations curricula and, the future of public relations education in the United States

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Beurer-Zuellig, Bettina, Fieseler, Christian, and Meckel, Miriam	A descriptive inquiry into the corporate communication profession in Europe	270-279

	This paper explores the educational backgrounds, work activities, remuneration and job satisfaction of European communication professionals

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Jaques, Tony	Issue and crisis management: Quicksand in the definitional landscape	280-286

	The broad field of public relations is plagued by difficulties of definition, none more problematic than the definitional challenges facing issue management and crisis management

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Girona, Ramon, and Xifra, Jordi	The Office of Facts and Figures: Archibald MacLeish and the "strategy of truth"	287-290

	This paper presents a man and a stage seldom cited in the history of public relations - Archibald MacLeish and the Office of Facts and Figures, and his idea of "strategy of truth" as an ethical contribution of propaganda to facilitate the dialogue and debate which are necessary in democratic societies

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Lee, Mordecai	A case study of Congressional hostility to agency public relations: The Federal Reserve and Senator Heflin, 1922	291-293

	This is an historical case study of one US Senator's effort to reduce the public information activities of a federal agency

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Vreese, Claes H. de, and Elenbaas, Matthijs	Spin doctors in the spotlight: Effects of strategic press and publicity coverage on perceptions of political PR	294-296

	News media often engage in strategy framing when covering politics, including strategic press and publicity coverage coined to express the focus on the media's role in the game of politics, as well as politicians' calculated publicity and public relations efforts in relation to the media

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Verhoeven, Piet	Corporate actors in Western European television news	297-300

	News about corporations can be understood as an interdependent relationship among the public relations function, organizational logic and the logic of the media

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Rumsey, Gregory G., and White, Candace	Strategic corporate philanthropic relationships: Nonprofits' perceptions of benefits and corporate motives	301-303

	This study examines corporate philanthropy, a component of corporate social responsibility, from the perspective of nonprofit managers engaged in strategic philanthropic relationships

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Wigley, Shelley, and Zhang, Weiwu	PR gets personal: A framing analysis of coverage before and after a source's criticism of the media	304-306

	Public relations practitioners emphasize the importance of positive source-reporter relationships, but what happens when sources are critical of the reporters who cover them? Using framing analysis, this study examined newspaper coverage both before and after a source's personal attack on the media and found few differences in how the reporters covered the source of the attack

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Jeong, Se-Hoon	Public's Responses to an oil spill accident: A test of the attribution theory and situational crisis communication theory	307-309

	Situational communication crisis communication theory (SCCT) and Weiner's attribution theory are used in this research to explain the public's responses to a corporation that caused an oil spill accident

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Jin, Yan	The effects of public's cognitive appraisal of emotions in crises on crisis coping and strategy assessment	310-313

	This study tested a cognitive appraisal model that examines the variance in publics' emotional responses, strategies of coping with crises, and acceptance of different organizational crisis responses, as a function of publics' appraisal of crisis predictability and controllability

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Lariscy, Ruthann Weaver, Avery, Elizabeth Johnson, Sweetser, Kaye D., and Howes, Pauline	An examination of the role of online social media in journalists' source mix	314-316

	Using telephone surveys of business/financial journalists in the United States (n = 200), this research investigates the agenda-building role of social media content in journalists' work

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Bortree, Denise Sevick, and Seltzer, Trent	Dialogic strategies and outcomes: An analysis of environmental advocacy groups' Facebook profiles	317-319

	Previous studies of advocacy groups' Web sites suggest that the use of dialogic strategies could lead to greater dialogic communication

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McAllister-Spooner, Sheila M.	Fulfilling the dialogic promise: A ten-year reflective survey on dialogic internet principles	320-322

	A decade ago, using the dialogic theory of public relations as the theoretical framework, Kent and Taylor [Kent, M L

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Yang, Sung-Un, and Kang, Minjeong	Measuring blog engagement: Testing a four-dimensional scale	323-324

	This study proposed and validated a measurement scale of blog engagement

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Luque-Martinez, Teodoro, and Barrio-Garcia, Salvador Del	Modelling university image: The teaching staff viewpoint	325-327

	This study proposes a methodology for identification of the main dimensions determining university image and understanding the relative weight of each of these dimensions

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Gonçalves, Gisela Marques Pereira	Public relations in Portugal. An analysis of the profession through the undergraduate curriculum	328-330

	Higher education in public relations in Portugal has been expanding in recent years

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