PR Strategy and Application: Managing Influence

• Winner of the 2010 PRIDE award given by the PR Division of the National Communication Association

• Gives detailed treatment of how activists have used public relations including a consideration of how activists have been important to the historical develop of PR

• Argues for a move away from a corporate-centric view of public relations and for public relations to be seen as the management of mutually-influential relationships

• Emphasizes the importance of stakeholder expectations in shaping organizational actions and being a foundation for discussions between organizations and stakeholders

• Emphasizes the perspective that stakeholders and organizations are linked together in a complex networks rather that a series of separate relationships

• Accompanying website includes chapter outlines, a test bank, PowerPoint slides, and useful links for students and teachers

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Sherry J. Holladay is Professor of Corporate Communication at Eastern Illinois University. She is the author of numerous articles related to corporate communication.