Blog Archive for Stakeholder Engagement Category
May 16, 2023
By Anli Xiao, University of South Carolina, and Christen Buckley, Pennsylvania State University
As CSA is inherently controversial, determining how companies can communicate with people who oppose their stance on the issue is critical for companies to strategically orient their CSA efforts. As part of our grant from the. Page Center, we launched two studies directed… More
May 16, 2023
By Anli Xiao, University of South Carolina, and Christen Buckley, Pennsylvania State University
The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometers reports that 53% of globally surveyed consumers believe their countries are more divided today than ever before and report an increasing lack of trust in government and nongovernmental entities.
In fact, they reported that businesses are currently… More
May 1, 2023
By Chuqing Dong, Michigan State University and Jordan Morehouse, Clemson University
While government public relations practitioners are constantly challenged by poor public trust, we have limited knowledge about how to foster organization-public relationships (OPR) in the public sector. Building and sustaining quality relationships with diverse publics presents distinct difficulties for government entities as compared to their… More
November 14, 2022
A published research paper I co-authored with some collaborators from the Bellisario College examined the effects of conversion narratives on attitudes and behavioral intention to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
The study was conducted in January 2021, before the vaccine became widely available to the general public. It was also a time when many were unsure about the… More
November 8, 2022
The ethics of nonprofit fundraising is an undertheorized area. As such, the ethics of effective fundraising tactics used by nonprofits may not be fully considered. For example, the emotionally evocative imagery of starving children may be effective in raising money for an aid organization, but what are the ethics of employing this tactic?
Professional fundraising associations have adopted… More
October 31, 2022
By Katie R. Place, Page Center senior research fellow and professor of strategic communication at Quinnipiac University
It has been a pleasure serving as a senior research fellow at the Arthur W. Page Center and directing the 2020 Organizational Listening research call and subsequent projects.
► Presenting and publishing my… More