Strategic communication in crisis governance: Singapore’s management of the SARS crisis
The contingency theory of conflict management and current crisis management literature are integrated in this paper to examine how crisis has been communi-cated and managed by the Singapore government and what kinds of strategies arose during the various stages of the SARS crisis life-cycle. Finding...
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sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-70342019-07-23T08:14:11Z Strategic communication in crisis governance: Singapore’s management of the SARS crisis YAN, Jin PANG, Augustine CAMERON, Glen T. The contingency theory of conflict management and current crisis management literature are integrated in this paper to examine how crisis has been communi-cated and managed by the Singapore government and what kinds of strategies arose during the various stages of the SARS crisis life-cycle. Findings show that the Singapore government played a predominant role in managing how its multiple publics perceived the crisis by extensive communication through the news media. The media, in turn, playing a supporting nation-building role, assisted the government's management and communication of the crisis. To effectively manage the perception and emotion of the various public, the government had recourse to more accommodative stances. Accommodation embedded in advocacy was the operational approach adopted by the govern-ment in order to move its multiple publics in the same strategic direction along an continuum of accommodation. 2006-03-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6035 info:doi/10.22439/cjas.v23i1.693 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7034/viewcontent/693_2357_1_PB.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Crisis Communication Singapore Media Contingency Theory SARS Publics Asian Studies Business and Corporate Communications Social Influence and Political Communication |
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The contingency theory of conflict management and current crisis management literature are integrated in this paper to examine how crisis has been communi-cated and managed by the Singapore government and what kinds of strategies arose during the various stages of the SARS crisis life-cycle. Findings show that the Singapore government played a predominant role in managing how its multiple publics perceived the crisis by extensive communication through the news media. The media, in turn, playing a supporting nation-building role, assisted the government's management and communication of the crisis. To effectively manage the perception and emotion of the various public, the government had recourse to more accommodative stances. Accommodation embedded in advocacy was the operational approach adopted by the govern-ment in order to move its multiple publics in the same strategic direction along an continuum of accommodation. |
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Strategic communication in crisis governance: Singapore’s management of the SARS crisis |
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