W. TIMOTHY COOMBS is a Professor in the Nicholson School of Communication at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He is author of the award-winning Ongoing Crisis Communication (1999), Today’s Public Relations (with Robert Heath, 2006), and Code Red in the Boardroom: Crisis Management as Organizational DNA (2006). SHERRY J. HOLLADAY is a Professor in the Nicholson School of Communication at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Her work has been widely published in several journals. Together, W. Timothy Coombs and Sherry J. Holladay are authors of the award-winning books It’;s Not Just PR: Public Relations in Society (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007) and PR Strategy and Application: Managing Influence (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), and co-editors of The Handbook of Crisis Communication (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
?This will become a seminal text that can be used at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It is well-written, incorporates U.S. and European theoretical perspectives on CSR practice, and places it squarely in the domain of strategic communication.? - Derina R. Holtzhausen, Oklahoma State University ?CSR has become the new mantra of the corporate world. With a strategic and process oriented approach to CSR, this important book provides new research-based insights into the concept, philosophy, and practice of CSR.? - Winni Johansen, Aarhus University ?Without a sound CSR commitment by management, efforts to communicate CSR are at best facile and at worst manipulative and deceptive. CSR theory reasons that the organization must first be ?good? if it is to communicate in ways that can advantage its brand equity and protect it against unwarranted attacks. Coombs and Holladay wisely understand this battlefield and build on it to advance the understanding of what can and must be said to feature businesses? CSR achievements.? - Bob Heath, University of Houston