Communication strategies are directed towards mass media (public relations), government institutions (public affairs), investors, and employees. Depending on the stakeholder of communication, one can talk about external or internal communication, though this distinction has increasingly blurred.

By its focus on the whole process of communication management, research in Corporate Communication fits nicely in the broader ASCoR research programme, that focuses on production, content and effects of communication, with a special interest in the (broadly defined) consequences of communication.

Programme Group Directors

PhD research projects

• Automating equity? Investigating the role of algorithm bias in online employer communication | PhD Student: N.M.I.A. Fatah Elrahman Abdulqadir
• Contesting Media Legitimacy of Public Organizations: Construction, Diachronic Change and Impact of Legitimacy Framing | PhD Student: J.W. Tizora-Chikavhu
• How hard can they bite? The media as watchdogs over big tech’s influence on society and public policy | PhD Student: A. Schwinges