Public Relations Review

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	82
A case for the plausibility of public relations licensing: The carrot of privileged communication	48
Effects of AI versus human source attribution on trust and forgiveness in the identical corporate apology statement for a data breach scandal	45
Why go the extra mile? Re-engaging quiet quitters through dialogic communication and community building in the workplace	43
Examining message framing in a higher education crisis: A qualitative analysis of organizational perspectives and media portrayals	40
The processes-to-end(s) paradox of public relations	36
Social media advocacy and gun violence: Applying the engagement model to nonprofit organizations’ communication efforts	35
Identity resilience in times of mediatization: Comparing employees’ with citizens’ perceptions of a public organization	34
Framing, agency, and athlete activism: The case of simone biles at the 2020 olympics	32
Plain old Bess in a different dress? Disruptions of public relations in the digital age	30
Editorial Board	30
Spotlight on a complex crisis spillover: A multi-organisational perspective on rebuilding trust and reducing distrust in the Australian banking industry	28
It is all in the name: Toward a typology of public relations professionals’ ethical dilemmas	28
Using corporate social responsibility to enhance media reputation following a firm crisis: Evidence from China	27
The impact of diversity communication on employee organizational identification and employee voice behaviors: A moderated mediation model	27
Key issue operatives in an issue-driven network: Public relations as a “pocket of strength” in campus sexual assault awareness and prevention	26
Social media theory in public relations: A curation of a neglected topic in public relations research	25
Protecting organizational reputation during a para-crisis: The effectiveness of conversational human voice on social media and the roles of construal level, social presence, and organizational listeni	25
Communicating and managing aspirational talk-action tensions: An integrated approach of CSR discourse analysis	24
A quiver full of arrows: An examination of tactics employed by CEO activists in Ghana	23
A cross-disciplinary review of crisis spillover research: Spillover types, risk factors, and response strategies	23
Social media in public relations scholarship: A database-based systematic review of published articles from 2015 to 2020	23
Relationship cultivation strategies in the metaverse	23
How does it depend?: A systematic review of the contingency theory of accommodation in communication scholarship	23
Dissecting moral judgements: Using moral foundation theory to advance the contingency continuum	22

Employees’ voice behavior in response to corporate social irresponsibility (CSI): The role of organizational identification, issue perceptions, and power distance culture	21
Corporate social advocacy or social issues management? Examining state flagship universities’ responses to the killing of George Floyd	21
Business-centered versus socially responsible corporate diversity communication. An assessment of stakeholder (dis)agreement on Twitter	20
Navigating change in the era of COVID-19: The role of top leaders’ charismatic rhetoric and employees’ organizational identification	20
The U.S. capability framework for public relations and communication management: Results of a national three-stage study	20
Communicating corporate LGBTQ advocacy: A computational comparison of the global CSR discourse	20
Editorial Board	20
A process view of crisis misinformation: How public relations professionals detect, manage, and evaluate crisis misinformation	19
What fosters interorganizational frame convergence: Examining a semantic network during the opioid crisis	19
The dual-continuum approach: An extension of the contingency theory of strategic conflict management	18
Engagement in context: Making meaning of the Latino community health engagement process	18
Virtual community engagement: Engaging virtual communities for nation branding through sports	18
Explorations on mediated communication and beyond: Toward a theory of social media	17
Managing relationships on Facebook: A long-term analysis of leading companies in Germany	17
New public segmentation for political public relations using political fandom: Understanding relationships between individual politicians and fans	17
How do public organizations communicate their alliances on Facebook and how does the public react? A longitudinal analysis	17
Beyond reputational and financial damage: Examining emotional and religious harm in a post-crisis case study of Hillsong Church	17
Warranted inferences of mediation and possibility of a threshold effect: Verifying the mediating effects of anger in situational crisis communication theory	16
Internal crisis communication: The effects of negative employee-organization relationships on internal reputation and employees’ unsupportive behavior	16
How individuals use nonprofit organizations’ social media pages: Understanding functions of and networks from individual posts for social change	16
Bias in candidate sourcing communication: Investigating stereotypical gender- and age-related frames in online job advertisements at the sectoral level	16
Standing their ground: Southern white hegemonic defense of place through camouflaged narrative continuity	15
Spiritual but not religious seek unrestricted connection to selves, others, and earth: Formative research on the explosive growth of an ‘inactive public’ beyond the organization	15
Managing multi-stakeholder relationships in nonprofit organizations through multiple channels: A systematic review and research agenda for enhancing stakeholder relationship marketing	15
Capturing the dynamic tension in CSR discourses: Toward an integrative circuit of culture model	14
Reconceptualizing employee disengagement as both attitudinal and behavioral: Narratives from China	14
Political public relations, leadership, and COVID-19: A comparative assessment of Prime Ministers Ardern and Morrison on Facebook and Twitter	14
Theorizing issue-driven public attention and expectations in audience responses to corporate sociopolitical activism: A mixed-method analysis	13
Commentary is free: Issue management and gaining capital with thought leadership	13
Networks of international public relations production: The case of Latin American organizations’ connections to U.S. agents	13
A preliminary study for developing perceived ESG scale to measure public perception toward organizations’ ESG performance	13
Retelling the past crisis: Crisis memory and its influences on organizational reputation and public responses	13
Consumer rewarding mechanism in global corporate activism: An experiment using the Russia-Ukraine War	13
Enhancing supportive intention through perceived legitimacy: Social media influencer leadership and charismatic legitimization in CSR communication	13
Coping with workplace racial discrimination: The role of internal communication	12
Can we build a relationship through artificial intelligence (AI)? Understanding the impact of AI on organization-public relationships	12
Restoring trust through transparency: Examining the effects of transparency strategies on police crisis communication in Mainland China	12
Critical humanism for public relations: Harnessing the synergy of gender, race and sexuality research	12
Enhancing Employee Engagement via Leaders’ Motivational Language in times of crisis: Perspectives from the COVID-19 outbreak	12
Instilling warmth in artificial intelligence? Examining publics’ responses to AI-applied corporate ability and corporate social responsibility practices	12
Increasing employee advocacy through supervisor motivating language: The mediating role of psychological conditions	12
A new framework for managing “crisis spillover” as a type of sticky crisis: Initial insights from a crisis communication expert panel	12
The reputational benefits of instructing information: The first test of the revised model of reputation repair	11
Enhancing young consumer’s relational and behavioral outcomes: The impact of CEO activism authenticity and value alignment	11
What constitutes great IDEA? An examination of corporate diversity communication on facebook and external and internal stakeholder reactions	11
Social media engagement with organization-generated content: Role of visuals in enhancing public engagement with organizations on Facebook and Instagram	11
Explicating the public memory dialectic in public relations: The case of Donald Trump, The Oath Keepers, and January 6, 2021	11
Arts promotion and Black urban displacement: Exploring the paradox of the positive in government public relations and urban renewal discourse	11
Shaping media relations scholarship: A systematic review	11
The state of social-mediated crisis communication research through the lens of global scholars: An updated assessment	10

Exploring trauma-informed listening among public relations professionals	10
Rethinking the start date for media relations and press releases: The peace movement of the 1800s	10
Influence of perceptions of organizations and perceptions of issues on communicative behaviors: Roles of conspiratorial thinking and responsibility attribution	10
Role conceptions of university communicators: A segmentation analysis of communication practitioners in higher education institutions	10
A two-path model of the impact of LGBTQ+ diversity CSR levels on public response	10
“Don’t Mess with Ukrainian Farmers”: An examination of Ukraine and Kyiv’s official Twitter accounts as crisis communication, public diplomacy, and nation building during Russian invasion	10
Crime has a PR component: Public relations in U.S. mystery novels	10
Regenerative crisis, social media publics and Internet trolling: A cultural discourse approach	10
The paradoxical effects of communicating CSR activities: Why CSR communication has both positive and negative effects on the perception of a company’s social responsibility	10
Editorial Board	10
Public information officers’ use of social media monitoring: An updated analysis of current practice	10
Crisis management on social media: Effect of pre-crisis inoculation strategy and midst-crisis organizational interactivity	9
Examining strategic diversity communication on social media using supervised machine learning: Development, validation and future research directions	9
The relationship between public-relations and journalists in WhatsApp technology	9
A blame narrative approach to apologetic crisis management: The serial apologiae of United Airlines	9
Conceptualizing allegiant communication behavior: A cross-national study of employees’ self-orchestration of voice and silence	9
Editorial Board	9
Editorial Board	9
The moral foundations of responsible business: Using computational text analysis to explore the salience of morality in CSR communication	9
Timeliness, responsiveness and the human voice: The effects of dialogic strategies and the mediating role of perceived communication ethicality on social media relationship building	9
Confronting controversial content: Examining online narratives and frames in #CancelSpotify and #NetflixWalkout	9
Emotional intelligence and public relations: An empirical review	9
Managing spillover: Response strategies to another Charity’s crisis	9
A temporal approach to online discussion during disasters: Applying SIR infectious disease model to predict topic growth and examining effects of temporal distance	9
Artificial intelligence for internal communication: Strategies, challenges, and implications	9
Presidential crisis: An analysis of Biden & Trump’s crisis communications strategies in response to allegations of sexual misconduct	9
Socially stigmatized company’s CSR efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic: The effects of CSR fit and perceived motives	9
Words matter: The impact of workplace verbal aggressiveness on workgroup relationship conflict, work-life conflict, and employee-organization relationships	8
Dignity and respect or homocommodification? Applying moral philosophy to LGBTQ public relations	8
The ethical dimension of public relations in Europe: Digital channels, moral challenges, resources, and training	8
The experiences of English National Health Service professional communicators during the Covid-19 pandemic	8
The role of public relations in a counterhegemony: A case study of the 1968 poor people’s campaign	8
“A symbol of service and sacrifice, mourning and memory”: Public relations and public memory the 100th year commemoration of the tomb of the unknown soldier	8
Corporate lobbying: Role perceptions and perceived influence on political decisions of public affairs professionals	8
Public expectations of crisis outcomes in the social media era in China: A communication-mediated psychological mechanism	8
Public relations in the new millennium: Towards a synoptic view of fifteen years of research in Public Relations Review in the 21st century (2000–2014)	8
Addressing participation, belonging, and temporality in public formation and maintenance: Advancing a rhetorical approach to publics	8
Modeling the antecedents and outcomes of perceived relationship investment (PRI) in nonprofit organizations	8
The role of ethical leadership in building influence: Perspectives from female public relations professionals	8
“OK at the moment”: The important role listening plays in the relationship between black residents and local government	7
Internal public relations’ role with workplace, spirituality, and religion	7
Reinforcing and challenging whiteness through crisis communication: Proposing a discourse of community repair	7
Understanding how corporate social responsibility partnership factors influence nonprofit supportive intentions	7
Publics’ perceptions of legitimacy in corporate social advocacy: A computational analysis of the role of ideological congruence	7
Optimizing organizational corrective communication: The effects of correction placement timing, refutation detail level, and corrective narrative type on combating crisis misinformation narratives	7
Integrated financial communication: Insights on the coordination and integration among investor relations and public relations departments of listed corporations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland	7
An exploration of PR Week UK’s framing of specialist PR identities (1985–2010)	7
Designing effective corporate social advocacy campaigns using valence, arousal, and issue salience	7
Dynamics between fragmentation and unity: Identity and nonprofit relationship management in the Asian American Community	7
Pushing hands and buttons: The effects of corporate social issue stance communication and online comment (in)civility on publics’ responses	7
Who does (not) want to engage in internal social media? Employees’ segmentation into different user types	7
The role of the corporate purpose and how investor relations officers make sense of it	7
Stakeholder influence, government power, and new opportunities for Chinese Internet companies: A multilevel network analysis of cross-sector networks	7
Public relations lessons from the pandemic: A systematic review of the COVID-19 research in public relations published from 2020 to early 2023	7
Rumor behaviors as collective problem-solving: The moderating roles of regulatory focus	7
A systematic review of digital internal communication	7
Agonism in the arena: Analyzing cancel culture using a rhetorical model of deviance and reputational repair	7
Culture and internal communication in Chile: Linking ethical organizational culture, transparent communication, and employee advocacy	6
Pragmatic optimism, crisis leadership, and contingency theory: A view from the C-suite	6
Relationship cultivation and public engagement via social media during the covid-19 pandemic in China	6
Exploring leisure and municipal government public relations for community: A case example of parks and recreation	6
Computational strategic communication in a data-driven world	6
Revisiting the SMCC model: How Chinese public relations practitioners handle social-mediated crises	6
Capability gap in relation to public relations´ strategic issues in Latin America	6
So sorry, now please watch: Identifying image repair strategies, sincerity and forgiveness in YouTubers’ apology videos	6
Fans, friends, critics, and foes: How CSR-based stakeholder segmentation differentiates perceived corporate ethics, trust, and perceived brand quality	6
Editorial Board	6
Apologies as identification management: A theoretical model	6
“If it can be done, it will be done:” AI Ethical Standards and a dual role for public relations	6
Shaping corporate character via chatbot social conversation: Impact on organization-public relational outcomes	6
Engaging universe 4.0: The case for forming a public relations-strategic intelligence hybrid	6
Corporate responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by Fortune 500 companies	6
Building bridges for anti-racism activism: Testing situational theory of problem solving and problem chain recognition effect	6
Fake news: How emotions, involvement, need for cognition and rebuttal evidence (story vs. informational) influence consumer reactions toward a targeted organization	6
Editorial Board	5
Stakeholder engagement in a multicultural context: The contribution of (personal) relationship cultivation to social capital	5
Impacted publics’ perceptions of crisis communication decision making	5
Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication: FEMA’s Twitter use during the 2017 hurricane season	5
Introducing the Co-oriented Scansis (CoS) model: A case of chatbot, Lee-Luda	5
Editorial Board	5

Crisis response strategy manipulation: A systematic review and a test of nuances	5
Computer mediation vs. dialogic communication: How media affordances affect organization-public relationship building	5
Perceptions about corporate positioning on controversial sociopolitical issues: Examining big pharma engagement with patient advocacy	5
Holistic understanding of individuals’ prosocial behaviors: A configurational approach	5
U.S. Fortune 500’s stakeholders engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence for proactive approaches	5
Who’s missing out? The impact of digital networking behavior & social identity on PR job search outcomes	5
A call for reconfiguring evaluation models, pedagogy, and practice: Beyond reporting media-centric outputs and fake impact scores	5
When publics collide: Developing the dual orientation conflict model in inter-public conflict	5
Organizational legitimacy for high-risk facilities: Examining the case of NBAF	5
The state of internal communication in Latin America: An international Delphi study	5
How controversial businesses communicate CSR on Facebook: Insights from the Canadian cannabis industry	5
Social media users’ crisis response: A lexical exploration of social media content in an international sport crisis	5
A conceptual update to image restoration theory (IRT) via an analysis of the vice-presidential campaign of Kamala Harris	5
Editorial Board	5
Morality rules: Understanding the role of prior reputation in consequences of scansis	4
Putting ethics of care into public relations: Toward a multi-level agency model	4
Examining characteristics of prebunking strategies to overcome PR disinformation attacks	4
Legitimacy, issue management, and gun debate	4
Transparency and strategic promotion: How court press releases facilitate judicial agenda-building in Germany	4
Convergence or divergence? A cross-platform analysis of climate change visual content categories, features, and social media engagement on Twitter and Instagram	4
Black-owned business and passionate brand publics: A netnography of The Honey Pot Company PR crisis	4
Crisis communication: The mediating role of cognitive and affective empathy in the relationship between crisis type and crisis response strategy on post-crisis reputation and forgiveness	4
When public relations meets social media: A systematic review of social media related public relations research from 2006 to 2020	4
Toward an authentic corporate social advocacy (CSA): An internal perspective of BLM advocacy	4
Public responses to nonprofit social media messages: The roles of message features and cause involvement	4
Exploring online opinion leadership in the network paradigm: An analysis of influential users on Twitter shaping conversations around anthem protests by prominent athletes	4
What drives a tough call: Determining the importance of contingency factors and individual characteristics in communication executives’ stance decision-making through a conjoint analysis	4
Megaphoning effects of skepticism, cynicism, and situational motivation on an environmental CSR activity	4
Editorial: Special issue on the spillover effect of crises	4
Unpacking publics’ disengagement and information behaviors: Roles of psychological distance, feasibility and desirability in an environmental sustainability issue	4
How organization response influences public sentiment and behavior in online crises: The role of response strategies, tenor of discourse and executives	4
Social presence for strategic health messages: An examination of state governments' use of Twitter to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic	4
Engaging through stories: Effects of narratives on individuals’ skepticism toward corporate social responsibility efforts	4
Narrative persuasion by corporate CSR messages: The impact of narrative richness on attitudes and behavioral intentions via character identification, transportation, and message credibility	4
What do we know about government public relations (GPR)? A systematic review of GPR in public relations literature	4
Corporate sustainability as a hegemonic discourse of globalization: The discourse-historical approach as a critical issues and stakeholder analysis tool	3
A relational approach to social impact: Moving beyond instrumental and consumer approaches	3
Organizing community: Activist public relations as place-making	3
The change process to agile public relations	3
A scoping review of arab public relations scholarship	3
Development of public relations research in Ghana: A systematic review	3
Editorial Board	3
Measuring social movement engagement: A co-creational approach to public engagement and social capital	3
Together in crisis: A comparison of organizational and faith-holders’ crisis communication	3
Effects of Issue Ownership, Perceived Fit, and Authenticity in Corporate Social Advocacy on Corporate Reputation	3
What does learning by listening bring to citizen engagement? Lessons from a government program	3
“I've never seen a client say: ‘Tell the influencer not to label this as sponsored’”: An exploration into influencer industry ethics	3
Finding the path beyond reputation repair: A structural topic modeling analysis of the crisis communication paradigm in public relations	3
Diplomatic first aid or first harm: The specialized communicative role of foreign temporary migrants for their host region	3
Investor relations media mix: Media planning in the public relations sub-function	3
Making space for activism studies in public relations curricula	3
A social influence perspective toward employee-organization relationships: The role of relationship norms in employee peer networks	3
The media literacy divide: Ideological framing of labor in public relations agency internship postings	3
Motivating employee voicing behavior in optimizing workplace generative ai adoption: The role of organizational listening	3
A tale of two kidnapings: Government response to Chibok & Dapchi attacks in Nigeria	3
“Are they allowed to do that?” Content and typology of corporate socio-political positioning on TWITTER. A study of DAX-30 companies in Germany	3
Situating deep learning in a relating management approach: Examining the dynamics and outcomes of contingent organization-public relationships (COPRs) in crisis	3
Beyond the code: The impact of AI algorithm transparency signaling on user trust and relational satisfaction	3
Building “foundational” linkages between development communication and public relations: A collaborative communication approach to development	3
Serving public interests and enacting organizational values: An examination of public interest relations through AARP’s Tele-Town Halls	3
Comparison study of PR curriculum and PR job posts	3
Should relationships be at the heart of public relations? A meta-analysis of the antecedents and consequences of organization-public relationships	3