Papers by Christian Fieseler
ERN: Regulation (IO) (Topic), 2017
Report from the EU H2020 Research Project Ps2Share: Participation, Privacy, and Power in the Shar... more Report from the EU H2020 Research Project Ps2Share: Participation, Privacy, and Power in the Sharing Economy
Es wird aufgezeigt, wie sich mit dem Web 2.0 die Kommunikation im Netz verandert, welche Plattfor... more Es wird aufgezeigt, wie sich mit dem Web 2.0 die Kommunikation im Netz verandert, welche Plattformen des Web 2.0 im Netz existieren, wie das Web 2.0 fur die Unternehmenskommunikation genutzt werden kann, wie sich das Medienverhalten der Nutzer durch das Web 2.0 verandert hat und wie es um die Krisenkommunikation in den Sozialen Medien steht.
Sharing economy platforms frame a dichotomy between innovation and regulation. Current discussion... more Sharing economy platforms frame a dichotomy between innovation and regulation. Current discussions surrounding the merits and desirability of regulatory oversight, among policy makers, academics, and platform advocates, are nevertheless conducted in a top-down fashion on both sides. What is often left out is the user perspective. We suggest that one of the most fun-damental shapers of a users perspective on regulation is their own experiences of the sharing economy. A key factor in user experience is perceived fairness. In this contribution, we inves-tigate how the perceived fairness of a platform can impact regulatory desirability among users, based on a survey in 12 European countries. We find that procedural fairness has a positive effect on the desire for regulation, while interactional fairness has a negative one.
The paper presents the findings of a quantitative investigation into the major working fields of ... more The paper presents the findings of a quantitative investigation into the major working fields of German, Austrian, and Swiss communication professionals. We build upon previous work done in roles research but follow a grounded approach in using an explorative cluster analysis on a sample of 340 communicators. We identify fives typologies into which the working fields of communication practitioners in these countries can be categorized: Strategists, Public Affairs Officers, Internal Communicators, Investor Relations Officers and Brand Officers. These profiles are distinctively different in terms of education, salary, and career as well as job satisfaction and show the various roles communication practitioners take as well as their integration within organizations
In our contribution, we investigate the adaptability of Swiss editorial teams to the changes brou... more In our contribution, we investigate the adaptability of Swiss editorial teams to the changes brought to the journalistic profession by the advent Social Media. Based on a survey designed to measure adaptability to change, we observe reservations on the micro level (changes in role and relationship models of journalists) as well as on the meso level (adaptability of the organization). Despite these reservations, there is wide-spread acceptance of Social Media as a distinct new journalistic form, that regardless of necessary organizational and personal adjustments to be made in the near to mid-term future, there is the promise new form of authorreader interaction and more immediate forms of journalism long thought gone from editorial practice.
In our contribution, we investigate the adaptability of journalists and editorial teams to the ch... more In our contribution, we investigate the adaptability of journalists and editorial teams to the changes brought to the profession by the advent of new, more technology-driven journalism. We posit that to remain relevant in these fast-changing times, journalistic organizations have to generate a new innovativeness and creativity out of their own core, relying on as many shoulders in the organization as possible. Technological determinism characterized the academic discourse about the modifications the Internet (i.e. Social Media) would bring to journalism. One may get the impression that technological innovations would trigger social change and business model innovation virtually by default. However, with the ongoing observations of the journalistic system it became apparent that existing practices tend to resist change, as journalists tend to hold on to their (former) powerful role models, and the system relies on common business models. Thus, in our research we want to opt for an ap...
A company's perception on capital markets determines its value and thereby its strategic opti... more A company's perception on capital markets determines its value and thereby its strategic options. And yet little is known about the corporate features and factors that determine the perceptions held by financial analysts, institutional investors and financial journalists. The common models of company evaluation usually focus all too strongly on financials alone. In this study we argue that capital market participants face the challenge of having to assess the uncertain prospects of markets and companies. To reduce the unavoidable risks associated with this exercise, capital market participants draw on so-called qualitative, non-financial corporate factors. By considering these factors, they can assess the situation, capacities, resources and business potential of a company more realistically and thereby improve the quality of the required forecasts. In addition, qualitative corporate factors also provide the basis for a capital market reputation - that is, a collective judgment ...
Stakeholder relationships become increasingly important as new communication technologies en-able... more Stakeholder relationships become increasingly important as new communication technologies en-able interest groups to communicate their demands, organize themselves and voice their concerns with ease. In this changing stakeholder environment, the creation and maintenance of relational social capital relies not only on communication in classical media alone but also on the various online channels summarized by the term "social media." Utilizing a literature study and expert interviews, this article explores how organizations engage in creating and maintaining relational social capital by communicating their corporate social responsibility efforts through social media channels.
Page 1. Corporate Social Responsibility in Social Media Eliane Bucher,Michael Etter &... more Page 1. Corporate Social Responsibility in Social Media Eliane Bucher,Michael Etter & Christian Fieseler ...
The article is a short piece based on our EACD survey on the identity management practices of mar... more The article is a short piece based on our EACD survey on the identity management practices of marketing and communication professeionals on how communications teams can harness the power of online impression management
Logik und Sprache mussen verstanden werden - Spielregeln und Ablaufe aktiv mitgestalten - Kommuni... more Logik und Sprache mussen verstanden werden - Spielregeln und Ablaufe aktiv mitgestalten - Kommunikationskultur andert sich - Personlicher Ton ist gefragt
Against the background of rapid change in the journalistic environment, we are interested in the ... more Against the background of rapid change in the journalistic environment, we are interested in the potential to integrate journalists into organizational innovation processes. To this end, we are looking at journalistic role concepts, and especially the antecedents to these concepts that might or might not foster innovative contributions to the organization. Based on research with several news organizations, we propose the measures of role clarity, conflict and overload as antecedents to the propensity of journalists to act as agents of innovation within their organization.
Fieseler, Christian ; Hoffmann, Christian Pieter ; Meckel, Miriam: Opportunities and Pitfalls in ... more Fieseler, Christian ; Hoffmann, Christian Pieter ; Meckel, Miriam: Opportunities and Pitfalls in Stakeholder Engagement and Dialogue : A Case Study From the Pharmaceutical Industry. 2010. - 60th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. - ...
Unemployment is an unsettling reality, affiliated to financial restriction, a loss of social stru... more Unemployment is an unsettling reality, affiliated to financial restriction, a loss of social structure, and the risk of mental strain such as depressions and anxiety states. How well people overcome the incriminatory situation of unemployment is among others a matter of social support. Online social media such as social network sites and communities may offer additional possibilities to unemployed people to gain or receive social support. This paper posits that online social support plays an important role helping to cope with unemployment, and facilitate the search for new employment. Based on a structural equation model, the paper develops and tests the influence of online-mediated, enabling and caring social support on job search self-efficacy that may positively encourage the job search behavior of unemployed persons. In addition, we control the model for the factors gender, age, user experience and attitude towards the Internet. Based on 2,400 telephone interviews with unemploy...
Victor Porak, Christian Fieseler & Christian Pieter Hoffmann ... Erfolgskontrolle im Kommunik... more Victor Porak, Christian Fieseler & Christian Pieter Hoffmann ... Erfolgskontrolle im Kommunikationsmanagement im Kontext der Intangible Assets ... Schlagwörter (Tags) Intangible Assets, Kommunikation, Erfolgskontrolle Projekt Erfolgskontrolle in der Unternehmenskommunikation Typ Buchkapitel (Deutsch) ...
Despite the rising practice of engaging stakeholders through online media in organizational socia... more Despite the rising practice of engaging stakeholders through online media in organizational social responsibility efforts, little is known about the effects and the most impactful modes of engageme...
The success and the overall value of a corporation are heavily dependent on the financial communi... more The success and the overall value of a corporation are heavily dependent on the financial community's assessment of that company. Members of the financial community are faced with the challenging task of developing an adequate image or understanding of a company, its state, development and resources. Within the financial community, intermediaries such as journalists and analysts professionally observe, describe and analyze companies. The content produced by intermediaries has a significant impact on how investors perceive companies. Although companies devote a tremendous amount of time and resources to their interaction with investors, their actual control over the content consumed and considered by those investors is very limited. We hold that companies can increase their influence on this content through professional communication to intermediaries on financial markets. Company disclosure can have considerable impact on the perception by intermediaries, if it addresses the int...
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The book chapter discusses the findings of a quantitative investigation into the work roles of Eu... more The book chapter discusses the findings of a quantitative investigation into the work roles of European communication professionals. In particular, our research investigates whether the manager-technician typology, developed in previous role research, still captures the reality of modern communication work, and whether there are any differences in the European context compared to the United States, where most research on practitioner roles has been done to date. Based on structural equation modeling, we show that several assumptions from this stream of research do not hold up to the scrutiny of modern statistical methods. Instead, we propose a more modest interpretation, first of which roles modern communication practitioners actually enact, and second how these roles relate to job satisfaction, managerial input and gender differences in the field.
Investor relations are a boundary-spanning corporate function aiming at ensuring the acceptance a... more Investor relations are a boundary-spanning corporate function aiming at ensuring the acceptance and cooperation of capital market participants through communication. With the emergence of social media, IR professionals are provided with new opportunities to manage the capital market reputation of their companies, but are also faced with new challenges and pitfalls. In this context, this paper presents a range of case studies identifying common trends, opportunities and challenges in managing capital market reputation management in a social media environment.
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