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Inter-organizational infrastructure for communication
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Inter-organizational infrastructure for communication
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a study of the generative aspects of the communication context on CSR strategy and instrumentation
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Ziek
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Paul Edward
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Paul Ziek
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Aakhus
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Mark
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Mark Aakhus
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chair
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Doerfel
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Marya
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Marya Doerfel
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internal member
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Bzdak
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Michael
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Michael Bzdak
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internal member
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Hunter
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Mark
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Mark Hunter
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2012
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2012-05
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2012
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eng
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This longitudinal case study of the controversy surrounding Nike’s shoe production from 1993-2004 examines the infrastructure that evolved for communicating about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues among the actors in the controversy. In contrast to conventional views about strategies and instrumentation for communicating CSR that highlights the decision-making of management, the present study highlights how the inter-organizational communication context contributes to the invention and reinvention of CSR strategies and instruments. By mapping the evolving web of relationships among actors, moves, and instruments of communication over the course of the controversy, the study articulates the infrastructure for communication about CSR issues. Infrastructure for communication is defined as the repertoire of rules, materials and practices that provides a tacit framework through which the ambiguities of meaning and action are managed. The study shows how the infrastructure evolved relative to the demands for interaction. The main finding of the study is that infrastructure shaped how the organizations behaved by acting as a coordinating device for the invention and reinvention of the symbolic and material qualities of inter-organizational communication and interaction. Furthermore, the implication of this finding is that it provides a new way of looking at how the communication process itself shapes inter-organizational behavior.
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Communication, Information and Library Studies
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Social responsibility of business--Longitudinal studies
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Issues management
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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xiv, 237 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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by Paul Edward Ziek
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Nike (Firm)--Public relations
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Communication
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000065312
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3FX78CB
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Ziek
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Paul
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2012-04-15 16:15:12
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Paul Ziek
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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