Complexities of Crisis Renewal Over Time: Learning from the Tainted Odwalla Apple Juice Case

Autor: Jennifer Reierson, Timothy L. Sellnow, Robert R. Ulmer
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Communication Studies. 60:114-129
ISSN: 1745-1035
1051-0974
Popis: This study examines the postcrisis experience of Odwalla, an organic juice and natural products company, following a 1996 E. coli outbreak. Specifically, the four consistent characteristics of renewal were observed in Odwalla's extended recovery process. These characteristics include: provisional as opposed to strategic, prospective rather than retrospective, capitalizing on the opportunities embedded in the crisis, and renewal as a leader-based communication form. The study identified Odwalla's initial success and the complexity-fraught extended recovery period that followed. Odwalla overcame these complexities with a consistent focus on renewal and an emphasis on the characteristics appropriate to meeting the extended recovery process' shifting demands.
Databáze: OpenAIRE