Contextual awareness on organizational crises: National context and crisis attribution

IF 2.7 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Public Relations Inquiry Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.1177/2046147X19845421

Hui Zhao

引用次数: 4

Abstract

This study examines the influences of national contexts on crisis attribution to address the recent appeal for a more contextually sensitive perspective in crisis communication research. Specifically, this study revisits the situational crisis communication theory (SCCT) in the Chinese context by taking an online discussion on Weibo about a high-profile homicide in a McDonald’s restaurant as the case. Built on the framing theory and categorization of national contexts, an inductive framing analysis of 100 top forwarded posts demonstrates a complex negotiation process of context-embedded frames and its significant impacts on crisis attribution. The model of SCCT is then refined by integrating national contexts into the concept of ‘modifier’. Implications for both theory and practice are also discussed.

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组织危机的情境意识:国家情境与危机归因

本研究考察了国家背景对危机归因的影响，以应对最近对危机传播研究中更具背景敏感性的视角的呼吁。具体而言，本研究以微博上一场关于麦当劳餐厅高调凶杀案的在线讨论为例，重新审视了中国背景下的情境危机沟通理论。基于框架理论和国家背景分类，对100篇转发量最高的帖子进行归纳框架分析，展示了背景嵌入框架的复杂谈判过程及其对危机归因的重大影响。然后，通过将国家背景纳入“修饰语”的概念，对SCCT的模型进行了改进。文中还讨论了对理论和实践的启示。

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Public Relations Inquiry COMMUNICATION-

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4.10

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11.10%

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