8 results on '"Johansson, Catrin"'
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2. Speaking of change: three communication approaches in studies of organizational change
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Johansson, Catrin and Heide, Mats
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- 2008
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3. The communicative constitution of adaptive capacity during Sweden’s Västmanland wildfire.
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Jahn, Jody L. S. and Johansson, Catrin
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DISASTER resilience ,COMMUNICATION ,WILDFIRES ,ECOSYSTEMS ,INFORMATION sharing ,MANAGEMENT - Abstract
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain how adaptive capacity is accomplished through communication processes and can contribute to enhancing disaster resilience. The authors adopt a structurational “four flows” explanation of communication processes.Design/methodology/approach The authors observed and analyzed discourse in meetings of a crisis communication network consisting of representatives of municipalities and public authorities involved in crisis communication management during the Västmanland wildfire in Sweden.Findings Adaptive capacity during the wildfire was principally accomplished through the structurational communication processes or “flows” of self-structuring, activity coordination, and institutional positioning. These flows intersected demonstrating how communication accomplishes the development of a responsive affiliation, organizes stabilizing structuring practices, and enables adaptive structuring practices.Research limitations/implications The main contribution of this study is a communicative explanation for adaptive capacity, which draws from a structurational model of constitutive communication, and lends further understanding to improvisation during disasters.Practical implications The authors discuss the findings in relation to improvisation, suggesting how the findings can inform future coordinated crisis communication for the public and news media. The recommendations address how practitioners might build a responsive affiliation, use minimal structures (e.g. communication practices), and maintain flexibility by introducing group reflexivity behaviors.Originality/value The authors provide new theoretical and empirical knowledge of the communicative constitution of adaptive capacity during a disaster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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4. Communicative leadership.
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Hamrin, Solange, Johansson, Catrin, and Jahn, Jody L. S.
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COMMUNICATIONS research ,LEADERSHIP ,DISCOURSE ,COWORKER relationships ,BUSINESS enterprises - Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to enhance the knowledge of how leadership concepts are embraced by leadership actors and perceived to influence relationships between leaders and co-workers. Specifically, the authors aim to investigate how leaders and co-workers discursively construct the concept of “communicative leadership” and its practices and perceive that communicative leadership influences relationships, work processes, and agency. Design/methodology/approach – The authors analyzed interviews with leaders and co-workers in two Swedish business organizations about their understandings and experiences of leadership. Findings – Communicative processes that enhance co-worker agency, defined as a capacity to act; include: facilitating autonomy, sharing responsibility, and mutual participation. Relational and discursive leadership processes such as responsiveness and dialogue were seen to enhance mutual participation in both organizations. Broader Swedish cultural macro discourses shaped the leader/co-worker relationship, making agency a relational accomplishment rather than an individual phenomenon. Research limitations/implications – This study relies on data from individual and focus group interviews, rather than direct observation of leadership processes. Practical implications – Findings suggest that organizations would benefit from making explicit their goals and expectations for communicative leadership in their respective social and cultural contexts. Originality/value – The authors provide new theoretical and empirical knowledge of leaders’ and co-workers’ discursive construction of a leadership concept; leadership communication research in the Swedish context; empirical research on communicative leadership as an empowering form of leadership communication; and how leadership communication discourse on a micro level is connected to organizational and macro-social cultural levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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5. Visions and Realities. Discourse in a Strategy Communication Process.
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Johansson, Catrin
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BUSINESS communication ,STRATEGIC planning ,BUSINESS planning ,COMMUNICATION ,EXECUTIVES ,EMPLOYEES - Abstract
This paper presents a longitudinal qualitative study of communication about strategy, encompassing vision, strategic objectives and common values in a company. Communication followed a top-down process from CEO down the hierarchy of managers to employees. A combination of methods: interviews, observations and discourse analysis, was used to study important factors influencing the strategy communication process. The analysis demonstrates how visions formulated by top managers met different realities constructed by subordinate managers. Discourse dimensions of framing, footing and face reveal the importance of individual experience, attitudes, and power to sensemaking in the strategy communication process. Accordingly, this method is considered to enhance analyses of sensemaking and communication problems in organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
6. Conceptualizing communicative leadershipA framework for analysing and developing leaders’ communication competence.
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Johansson, Catrin, Miller, Vernon D., and Hamrin, Solange
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LEADERSHIP ,COMMUNICATION ,CHIEF executive officers ,COMMUNICATIVE competence ,PUBLIC sector ,MORAL judgment - Abstract
Purpose – The concept of “communicative leadership” is used in organisations that analyse and develop leaders' communication competence. A scholarly definition of this concept is lacking, and the implications of leaders' communication and the development of communication competence for organisations are rarely discussed. The purpose of this paper is to create a theoretical framework around the concept of “communicative leadership”, which can contribute to future research and development of leaders' communication competence. Design/methodology/approach – Three research questions were addressed: what communicative behaviours are central to leaders? How can “communicative leaders” be characterised? What is a “communicative leader”? Literature from the leadership and communication research fields was reviewed and related to these questions. Findings – Four central communicative behaviours of leaders (i.e. structuring, facilitating, relating, and representing), eight principles of communicative leadership, and a tentative definition are presented. A communicative leader is defined as someone who engages employees in dialogue, actively shares and seeks feedback, practices participative decision making, and is perceived as open and involved. Practical implications – A theoretical foundation to the practice of analysing and developing leaders' communication competence is provided, which is related to employee engagement and organisational performance. Originality/value – Communicative leadership is a concept emerging from organisational needs, articulated by corporate and public organisation leaders. This article links its core constructs to academic quantitative and qualitative research in an integrated framework, which can guide further research and the development of leaders' communication competence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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7. Cultural Competence and Institutional Contradictions: The Hydropower Referendum.
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Johansson, Catrin and Stohl, Cynthia
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REFERENDUM , *COMMUNICATION , *WATER power , *POWER plants - Abstract
This study explores a corporate campaign to pass a referendum to enable the development of a hydropower plant in a small Swedish community. In the changing institutional context that grounds this case, the organization needed to develop communicative practices that embodied “cultural competence,” a set of processes identified as critical for the legitimacy and success of business organizations in the emerging global/intersectoral environment. Findings suggest that the MNC's communication strategy captured important components of cultural competence. However, institutional contradictions impeded enactment of the strategy and resulted in delegitimizing paradoxical communication. The results indicate that organizational awareness of institutional change and culturally competent strategy are insufficient without special attention to contradictions and resultant communicative paradoxes embodied within a particular institutional context. The importance of a reflective communication approach that engages contradictions and tensions in the surrounding micro–macro institutional contexts is underscored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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8. Institutionalization of communication managementA theoretical framework.
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Grandien, Christina and Johansson, Catrin
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COMMUNICATION ,EXECUTIVES ,PUBLIC relations ,SOCIAL responsibility of business ,INFORMATION technology ,SOCIAL structure - Abstract
Purpose |!|#8211; Development and expansion of the communication management function in organizations has recently been discussed in relation to the concept of institutionalization. Empirical evidence has illustrated that the role of communication executives and communication managers varies between organizations, and could also be subjected to change within an organization. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize institutionalization of communication management as a process. It aims to develop a theoretical framework that integrates important factors that influence and regulate this process. Design/methodology/approach |!|#8211; A literature review resulted in a number of factors potentially influencing the institutionalization process. These factors were attributed to three main theoretical areas and four different levels of analysis, using institutional theory as a guiding framework. The theoretical areas and analysis levels, were proposed to be mutually interdependent, and were compiled in a theoretical framework, illustrated in a model. Findings |!|#8211; The theoretical framework includes three main areas: organizational structure, social capital, and perceptions of the profession; and four levels of analysis: the societal, the organizational field, the organizational and the individual levels. Originality/value |!|#8211; This paper contributes to the study of institutionalization of communication management in organizations by providing a theoretical framework, which can be used to further investigate the development of the communication function and the role of communication executives and communication managers in organizations. By conceptualizing institutionalization of communication management as a process, and exploring and defining the important elements that influence and regulate this process, an important theoretical contribution to the field is made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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