<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The article constitutes a presentation of the results of research devoted to the current trends in crisis PR. The authors of the work made an attempt to diagnose crisis prevention in a cross-section of two dimensions. On the one hand the perspective of business (survey of companies) was presented and on the other hand experts’ opinions (survey of the leaders of public relations agencies) were shown. As a result of analyses a point model of an immune system, which takes into consideration the key instruments of crisis methodology (developed procedures in form of communication management book, dedicated anti-crisis structures in an organization, crisis team with a fixed membership and a system of communication trainings) was designed. Diagnosis of prevention measures of the leaders of Polish business — based on the years 2007–2017 showed major deficiencies in the degree of companies’ preparation for the risk of crisis.</p></abstract>

The article constitutes a presentation of the results of research devoted to the current trends in crisis PR. The authors of the work made an attempt to diagnose crisis prevention in a cross-section of two dimensions. On the one hand the perspective of business (survey of companies) was presented and on the other hand experts’ opinions (survey of the leaders of public relations agencies) were shown. As a result of analyses a point model of an immune system, which takes into consideration the key instruments of crisis methodology (developed procedures in form of communication management book, dedicated anti-crisis structures in an organization, crisis team with a fixed membership and a system of communication trainings) was designed. Diagnosis of prevention measures of the leaders of Polish business — based on the years 2007–2017 showed major deficiencies in the degree of companies’ preparation for the risk of crisis.

The Role of Crisis Prevention from the Perspective of the Biggest Polish Companies and Public Relations Agencies on the Basis of Expert Research

Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies, Department of Social Communication and Public Relations

department of research and strategic analysis, Rzeszów

Marketing of Scientific and Research Organizations

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The article constitutes a presentation of the results of research devoted to the current trends in crisis PR. The authors of the work made an attempt to...

The Role of Crisis Prevention from the Perspective of the Biggest Polish Companies and Public Relations Agencies on the Basis of Expert Research

Published Online: Oct 07, 2019

Page range: 109 - 130

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/minib-2019-0015

Keywords
public relations, crisis management, branch oppressiveness, preventive attributes, analytical model

© 2019 Dariusz Tworzydło et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Role of Crisis Prevention from the Perspective of the Biggest Polish Companies and Public Relations Agencies on the Basis of Expert Research

Published Online: Oct 07, 2019

Page range: 109 - 130

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/minib-2019-0015

Keywordspublic relations, crisis management, branch oppressiveness, preventive attributes, analytical model

© 2019 Dariusz Tworzydło et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
public relations, crisis management, branch oppressiveness, preventive attributes, analytical model