Ongoing Crisis Communication

W. Timothy Coombs (PhD Purdue University in Public Affairs and Issues Management) is the George T and Glady H Abell Professor in Liberal Arts in Department of Communication at Texas A&M University.  His primary areas of research are crisis communication and CSR including the award-winning book Ongoing Crisis Communication. He is the current editor for Corporation Communication:  An International Journal.  His research has appeared in Management Communication Quarterly, Public Relations Review, Corporate Reputation Review, Journal of Public Relations Research, Journal of Communication Management, Business Horizons, and the Journal of Business Communication.

Chapter 1: A Need for More Crisis Management Knowledge
Chapter 2: Risk as the Foundation for Crisis Management and Crisis Communication
Chapter 3: The Crisis Mitigation Process: Building Crisis Resistant and Resilient Organizations
Chapter 4: Crisis Preparing: Part I
Chapter 5: Crisis Preparing: Part II
Chapter 6: Recognizing Crises
Chapter 7: Crisis Responding
Chapter 8: Postcrisis Concerns and Epilogue
Appendix: Possible Case Studies
References
Index
About the Author