One Earth, One Humanity Versus the Virus: Examining the Global COVID-19 Social Partnership Communication Networks on Social Media
| Autor: | Wenlin Liu, Aimei Yang, Jieun Shin, Yiqi Li, Jingyi Sun, Yan Qu, Lichen Zhen, Hye Min Kim, Chuqing Dong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Business Communication. 60:587-610 |
| ISSN: | 2329-4892 2329-4884 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/23294884221114393 |
| Popis: | The COVID-19 pandemic has posed severe challenges that require collaborative efforts from multi-sector organizations. Guided by an institutional theory framework that considers how both organizational fields and national level contexts affect organizations’ social partnership communication, the current study examines the COVID-19-related social partnership communication network on social media. The cross-national study using semantic network analysis and exponential random graph models (ERGMs) first maps the meaning of COVID-19 social partnership network, and then investigates the role of organizational fields and a country’s political system, economic system, educational system, and cultural system on the formation of interorganizational communication ties surrounding the relief efforts of COVID-19. Results reveal the importance of the political system—such as the presence of populist government, economic disparity, and uncertainty avoidance cultural orientation in shaping the social media-based social partnership communication network. In addition, NGOs from multiple issue areas are actively engaged in the network, whereas corporations from manufacturing and financial industries are active players. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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