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Corporate Communication
Critical Business Asset for Strategic Global Change
Michael Goodman and Peter B. Hirsch
The communication role in organizations has changed, just as the nature of organizations has changed in response to the explosion of new communication technologies as well as global networks within organizations. Communication is more complex, strategic, and vital to the health of the organization than it used to be, and it will become increasingly important in the information-driven economy. This book builds upon the authors’ 2010 book,
Corporate Communication: Strategic Adaptation for Global Practice, which focused on the role of the communicator. This volume examines, analyzes, and illustrates the practice of corporate communication as a critical business asset in a time of global change. It looks at the major communication needs in the lifecycle of organizations: M&A (mergers and acquisitions), structural change, culture change, innovation, new leadership, downsizing, global expansion, competition, ethical decision-making, political action, and employee engagement. These are all significant value-creating, and potentially value-destroying, events in which corporate communication, if used correctly, functions as a critical and strategic business asset.
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Chapter One: Communication and Transformation in the Global Corporation
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Communication and Transformation in the Global Corporation
This chapter explores corporate communication as both a strategic management function and a strategic process in corporations. To understand how radical changes in business and the media have influenced the practice of corporate communication, this chapter examines those changes themselves—globalization, the Web, the Networked Enterprise, uncertainty, privacy, and “big data.” It reflects on the relationship between the behavior of multinational corporations and the political world order following World War II—globalization. It describes the nature of the far-reaching technological changes that have transformed communication media in the last decade—the Web. It explores the impact of technological data-gathering on privacy—big data. It examines the ways in which changes in the global economic system have combined with technology to alter the role and structure of the multi-national corporation—The Networked Enterprise as the new corporate business model. Volatility in global financial and commercial markets; political turmoil in Western democracies and the developing world, combine to make planning for the future a high-risk activity—uncertainty. This framework enables us then to analyze the role of corporate communication and how it should be defined in order to address how the forces described here have shifted the context of corporate communication.
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