Public Relations as a Maturing Discipline: An Update on Research Networks

Pasadeos, Yorgo; Berger, Bruce K.; Renfro, R. Bruce

doi:10.1080/10627261003601390

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“…Excellence and systems theories had been described as dominant in other PR bibliometric studies (Pasadeos et al, 2010). Elements of this paradigm were to be found in the two articles coded as using systems theories, the two articles that used game theory and the one that drew upon Grunig's situational theory of publics.…”

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“…In 1999 Pasadeos et al found that their largest subject category of cited works was "public relations roles", followed by "management and corporate public relations studies" and "models". In an update of this citation analysis (Pasadeos et al, 2010) Indeed Morton and Lin (1995) are also indicative of the dominance of functionalist managerialism during this period as evidenced by their decision to create "technical", "management", "professionalism" and "others" as their four topic categories. Reviews of the field at this time revealed a dominant paradigm in public relations research that privileged functional issues and which was firmly oriented towards seeing the world through the eyes of management.…”

Section: Content and Bibliometric Analyses Of Public Relations Scholamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Citation analysis has been used as a methodology to evaluate public relations scholarship by Yorgo Pasadeos and colleagues in three studies conducted nearly twenty years apart (Pasadeos and Renfro 1992, Pasadeos et al, 1999, Zoch et al, 2007and Pasadeos et al, 2010, and was also used by Morton andLin in 1995. Pasadeos andRenfro (1992) argued the value of citation analysis is that it allows an assessment of the impacts of authors, institutions and schools of thought.…”

Section: Content and Bibliometric Analyses Of Public Relations Scholamentioning

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Everywhere and nowhere: Theorising and researching public affairs and lobbying within public relations scholarship

Davidson

2015

Public Relations Review

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Public affairs and lobbying is a high status and strategically vital public relations specialism. It is a field of PR practice that generates high levels of both scholarly and public concern in regard to its perceived role in supporting corporate power and the associated impact on the functional legitimacy of democratic institutions. For this paper a content analysis was conducted of academic journals (between 2000-2013) to provide insights into how public affairs and lobbying have been theorised and researched within public relations scholarship and to ascertain to what degree wider public concerns have been addressed. Findings include an empirical confirmation of the low level of research activity on public affairs; that stakeholder and rhetorical theories have been the most widely used theories, but are far from constituting dominant paradigms; that scholarship has privileged functional objectives over civic concerns; and that published work originates almost entirely from institutions in Europe and the US with the Global South invisible. The paper also discusses future directions for research in public affairs and advocates the placing of discourse into definitions of public affairs, and that academic public relations should assert responsibility for this field, but in a manner that more equitably balances organisational and societal concerns. BackgroundThe centrality of the public affairs function within public relations in combination with the ongoing concerns regarding impacts on democratic decision-making, as well as popular assumptions of routinely low ethical standards present a strong normative case for this field to be a priority for theorising and research. While definitions of public affairs may still be in a state of flux, scholars who have explored this function have tended to agree on its significance as a specialism. Zetter mischievously nominated public affairs as constituting "PR for grown-ups" because of the "huge rewards for getting it right -and major consequences for getting it wrong" (2008: p. :xiii). Public affairs has been observed as higher status strategic work (L'Etang, 2008), and that specialists are more than "mere technicians" but professionals who wield influence in Part of the difficulty in defining and conceptualising public affairs as a specialism of public relations is that a considerable proportion of public affairs practice is indistinguishable from public relations activity (Somerville and Ramsey, 2012). By way of example, in written evidence to a committee of the UK parliament that was investigating the regulation of lobbying, Ed Williams then CEO of Edelman UK argued that for large agencies such as his "…public affairs is just one of many public relations services we provide to clients. The boundaries between, for example, activity which influences the political environment and activity which influences a broader media and stakeholder environment is increasingly blurred." (Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, 2012: p. 67).In most definitions public a...

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Everywhere and nowhere: Theorising and researching public affairs and lobbying within public relations scholarship

Davidson

2015

Public Relations Review

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“…On the other hand they are relating with a research domain where still further progress is needed both in terms of research methodologies, as well as in researcher's continuity and stringency in applying these approaches (Pasadeos et al 2011(Pasadeos et al , 2010. Accordingly, the application of available methods is a topic in high need of discussion both in public relations research in general and in international public relations and public diplomacy research in particular.…”

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“…However, to further establish and consolidate the domain within communication research further progress is needed both in terms of theory and research methodologies, as well as in researcher's continuity and stringency in applying these approaches (Pasadeos et al 2011(Pasadeos et al , 2010. Accordingly, the application of available methods in public relations research is a topic in high need of discussion.…”

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