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2. Corporate communication or McCommunication? Considering a McDonaldization of corporate communication hypothesis
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Verhoeven, Piet (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: D11583
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Promotion Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 21(2) : 267-277
- Notes:
- 12 pages., Online via UI e-subscription, "In this essay the perspective of Ritzer's McDonaldization of Society thesis is the starting point for developing theses about corporate communication (CorpCom). The central idea of McDonaldization is that increasing numbers of organizations are run as fast food restaurants, focusing on efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control of people. "At the same time that CorpCom departments help organizations with the McDonaldization of their organizations, they are also the ones most likely to be the first to be confronted with the irrationality that the economic rationality of the organization evokes. Stakeholders who disagree with the opinions and ideas of the organization come knocking on the door and generally that will be the door of the CorpCom professional. The irrationality of rationality, as the fifth dimension of McDonaldization, is likely to become visible and tangible in their offices. All types of tensions throughout the organization, for example, those regarding environmental, health, and other societal issues, seem to converge in the CorpCom department."
3. Depopulation and meat shortages: answering the tough questions
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- News release
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- USA: Center for Food Integrity, Gladstone, Missouri.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11707
- Notes:
- 2 pages., Online from publisher., Examines a period of meat shortages in stores - and headlines about pork and poultry farmers having to euthanize entire barns of animals. "Helping consumers understand the supply chain disruption and impacts may seem daunting, but the key is to keep it simple and engage on the shared values of safe food and a commitment to the highest standards of animal care."
4. Harnessing big data to support the conservation and rehabilitation of mangrove forests globally
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Worthington, Thomas A. (author), Andradi-Brown, Dominic A. (author), Bhargava, Radhika (author), Buelow, Christina (author), Bunting, Pete (author), Duncan, Clare (author), Fatoyinbo, Lola (author), Friess, Daniel A. (author), Goldberg, Liza (author), Hilarides, Lambert (author), Lagomasino, David (author), Landis, Emily (author), Longley-Wood, Kate (author), Lovelock, Catherine E. (author), Murray, Nicholas J. (author), Narayan, Siddharth (author), Rosenqvist, Ake (author), Sievers, Michael (author), Simard, Marc (author), Thomas, Nathan (author), van Eijk, Pieter (author), Zganjar, Chris (author), and Spalding, Mark (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11696
- Journal Title:
- One Earth
- Journal Title Details:
- 2(5) : 429-443
- Notes:
- 27 pages., Authors provide an overview of recent and forthcoming global datasets and explore the challenges of translating these new analyses into policy action and on-the-ground conservation of mangrove forests. They describe a new platform for visualizing and disseminating these datasets to the global science community and other audiences - and they highlight future directions and collaborations.
5. Institutionalizing end-user demand steering in agricultural R&D: farmer levy funding of R&D in The Netherlands
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Klerkx, Laurens (author) and Leeuwis, Cees (author)
- Format:
- unknown
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Netherlands
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09322
- Journal Title:
- Research Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 37 : 460-472
6. Killing the Vegas pipeline: Nevada's changing attitude toward water
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Siegel, Eric (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D11963
- Journal Title:
- High Country News
- Journal Title Details:
- 52(10) : 10-11, 29
- Notes:
- Online from publication., Describes a 31-year battle by the Great Basin Water Network against the Southern Nevada Water Authority's "groundwater development project" proposed to pump 58 billion gallons of water a year 300 miles to Las Vegas from the remote rural valleys of Nevada and Utah. Developments highlighted lack of trust and mutual goal-seeking.
7. Making messy data work for conservation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dobson, A.D.M. (author), Milner-Gulland, E.J. (author), Aebischer, Nicholas J. (author), Beale, Colin M. (author), Brozovic, Robert (author), Coals, Peter (author), Critchlow, Rob (author), Dancer, Anthony (author), Grove, Michelle (author), Hinsley, Amy (author), Ibbett, Harriet (author), Johnston, Alison (author), Kuiper, Timothy (author), Le Comber, Steven (author), Mahood, Simon P. (author), Moore, Jennifer F. (author), Nilsen, Erlend B. (author), Pocock, Michael J.O. (author), Quinn, Anthony (author), Travers, Henry (author), Wilfred, Paulo (author), Wright, Joss (author), and Keane, Aidan (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167; Folder: 201 Document Number: D11695
- Journal Title:
- One Earth
- Journal Title Details:
- 2(5) : 455-465
- Notes:
- 11 pages., Authors present an overview of the opportunities and limitations associated with messy data which conservationists increasingly use (e.g., citizen science records, ranger patrol observations). They also explain how the preferences, skills, and incentives of data collectors affect the quality of the information these data contain and the investment required to unlock their potential.
8. Report for America, report about communities: local news capacity and community trust
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wenzel, Andrea D. (author), Ford, Sam (author), and Nechushtai, Efrat (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D11515
- Journal Title:
- Journalism Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 21(3) : 287-305
- Notes:
- 19 pages., Online via UI e-subscription., Authors examined impacts of efforts by Report for America (RFA) to strengthen the capacity of local news and increase trust from the perspective of two communities: a neighborhood on Chicago's West Side and a rural county in eastern Kentucky. Findings illustrated "the influence of place and power dynamics on how residents navigate trustworthiness factors." They also revealed lack of feedback loops to provide coverage for communities.
9. U.S. food aid reform through alternative dispute resolution
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Griswold, Delilah J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D11551
- Journal Title:
- Sustainable Development Law and Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(1) : 47-79
- Notes:
- 18 pages., Online via UI e-subscription, Analysis prompted the author to propose that improving legislative negotiations through alternative dispute resolution tactics - private, multiparty negotiation and mediation by a politician - could have improved the success of various food aid reform efforts in the past by working to balance stakeholder power and quell detrimental opposition tactics.