Anthony R Yue

Mount Saint Vincent University · Department of Communication Studies

This paper explores perceptions of public relations roles andinfluence among senior communication managers in Canada.Findings suggest that practitioners are optimistic about theirstatus and location within their organizations. However, theyreport less confidence in the influence they can exert on financialdecisions that contribute to the organizati...

The narratives in this chapter provide insight into the value of the elderly; the meaningfulness of connections with an Elder; the fluidity of age definitions as related to Elder versus elderly; and the transference of knowledge from Elder to youth in an Inuit culture. In Management and Organizational Studies (MOS), organizational elders have multi...

Today’s students are very diverse but more significantly arrive at university with varying levels of ability and motivation to pursue higher education. This paper explores the higher education experience, specifically business studies, and the various factors which affect student success. Existentialism provides key insights to help us focus on the...

This paper represents the development of an innovative and comprehensive model designed to measure public relations excellence within an organizational context. Drawing on established scales of evaluation for public relations practice, researchers propose a measurement model situated within excellence Theory. Through a partnership between the resea...

We critically interrogate corruption via examinations of its meaning(s). Through examination of some of the definitions of elements of the word 'corruption' we engage in a textual reading whereby our typical conceptions of corruption are able to be put aside temporarily and are augmented if not replaced with alternative understandings. The notion o...

This paper investigates how a communicatively constituted perspective of organization and organizing may offer insight into our understandings of organizational identity construction within the new media environment. The authors suggest that social media networks as sites of organization represent more than just a change of context in terms of orga...

This paper examines today's globalized business school classroom and connections between critical thinking skills and exis-tential philosophy. The development of critical thinking skills has historically been a core objective of higher education and it is more important than ever with the increasingly diverse international classroom of the millenni...

Originally introduced as a strategy for lowering outsourcing costs and improving corporate efficiency, crowdsourcing has proven to be much more about dialogue within communities than the implementation of management technique. This paper suggests that the true potential in crowdsourcing and its derivatives, i.e. crowdfunding, is found in the way th...

I explore some effects of vicarious exposure to gossip at work using a multi method multi study program of research. Three studies were conducted. The first was a semi structured interview study. The second study was a between and within multi factorial experiment using video vignettes. The third study was a longitudinal survey design which took pl...

Finding Meaning through Work: Untangling the Braided Discourses This paper examines the braided discourses of finding meaning through work which is being indirectly promoted by the Job-Career-Calling model, the Spirituality in the Workplace field, and the Positive Psychology movement. We explore the intertextuality of these three areas converging t...

In this paper, we examine the intersection of existentialism and management, in particular to illustrate how existential thought offers three key insights to the pragmatic world of work and applied act of management: (1) Existentialism places a primacy upon the individual and the existential self that is continually being formed within the workplac...

Reflecting on the personal experience of teaching human resource management in the Canadian Arctic, the author explores the utility of an existentialist approach to pedagogy. The author outlines select aspects of existentialism that are pertinent to the teaching and discusses the implications of using reflexive existential thought as guidance in a...

When considering successful organizational change strategies, the prescriptions usually include some strong sense of leadership; a champion for the cause of change. Likewise there is often the suggestion of the requirement for a commitment to change on the part of others in the organization. Yet organizations and their associated actors are held in...

This paper reports on the early results of a study which is part of the Atlantic Schools of Business Conference (ASB) Renewal project, which is attempting to produce histories of one of the longest running business education conferences in North America. Without a standing organization or membership, ASB has nevertheless held annual conferences for...

In 1268 cardinals descended upon the medieval village of Viterbo to choose a successor for Pope Clement IV. For two years and eight months the cardinals stayed in the palace while the village had to feed and care for them. The end of the process arrived only when the people of the village could no longer afford to provide for the cardinals. It fina...