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Ongoing Crisis Communication
Planning, Managing, and Responding

Seventh Edition


September 2026 | 320 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Ongoing Crisis Communication: Planning, Managing, and Responding provides an integrated approach to crisis communication that spans the entire crisis management process and crosses various disciplines. A truly integrative and comprehensive text, this book explains how crisis management can prevent or reduce the threats of a crisis, providing guidelines for how best to act and react in an emergency situation. The Seventh Edition includes new coverage of the integration of social media platforms and various AI applications in crisis management and communication, risk management, internal crisis communication, and post-alert messaging. The revised edition also draws upon recent trends and insights from management, public relations, organizational psychology, marketing, organizational communication, and computer-mediated communication research.
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Author
 
Chapter 1: A Need for More Crisis Management Knowledge
Crisis Management Defined

 
The Initial Crisis Management Framework

 
Importance of Crisis Management

 
Chapter Summary

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 2: Risk as the Foundation for Crisis Management and Crisis Communication
The Knowns and Unknowns Framework of Risk

 
Risk in the Organizational Context

 
Enterprise Risk Management

 
Chapter Summary

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 3: The Crisis Mitigation Process: Building Crisis-Resistant And Resilient Organizations
Thinking About Risk Mitigation

 
Application of the Boyd OODA Loop: Observe

 
Application of the Boyd OODA Loop: Orient

 
Application of the Boyd OODA Loop: Decide and Act

 
Chapter Summary

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 4: Crisis Preparing: Part I
Preparing: Its Place within Crisis Management

 
Diagnosing Crisis Threats: The Start of Preparing

 
Selecting a Crisis Management Team

 
Training a Crisis Management Team

 
Resilience Training and Crisis Teams

 
Selecting and Training a Spokesperson

 
Chapter Summary

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 5: Crisis Preparing: Part II
Developing a Crisis Management Plan

 
Beyond the Crisis Management Plan

 
Reviewing the Crisis Communication System

 
Chapter Summary

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 6: Recognizing Crises
Selling the Crisis

 
Crises and Information Needs

 
Information-Processing Mechanisms

 
Chapter Summary

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 7: Crisis Responding
Form of the Crisis Response

 
Elaborating on Crisis Communication as Strategic Communication

 
Crisis Response Strategies: Adjusting and Instructing Information (Supportive Communication)

 
Crisis Response Strategies: Reputation Management Strategies

 
Contextual Factors: Evaluating Threats

 
Chapter Summary

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
Chapter 8: Postcrisis Concerns and Epilogue
Continuing the Crisis Performance

 
Crisis Management Evaluation and Refinement

 
Epilogue

 
Chapter Summary

 
Discussion Questions

 
 
References

For instructors