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dc.contributor.authorSataøen, Hogne Lerøy
dc.contributor.authorWæraas, Arild
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-31T12:20:19Z
dc.date.available2016-08-31T12:20:19Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.PublishedInternational Journal of Strategic Communication 2016, 10(3):165-176eng
dc.identifier.issn1553-1198
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1956/12698
dc.description.abstractWhat characterises strategic communication aimed at building the reputation of an entire public subsector? This is the main question for this study, pursued through content analysis of one-stop web portals for national higher education from the 21 countries listed in the Times Higher Education’s Top 150 Universities ranking. Findings show that strategic communication is formed by national governments to depict their higher education sector as a coherent whole without letting prominent universities “represent” the higher education sector. The tension between similarity and difference that often occurs in public sector reputation-building is handled partly by emphasising similarity concerns in the structure and format of the presentations, and partly by emphasising differentiation concerns in the contents of the presentations. Furthermore, in contrast to previous studies addressing either the reputation management and branding efforts of single institutions, specific public sector entities, or those of nations, this study shows how higher education reputation-building integrates these different levels through strategic communication.en_US
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherTaylor & Franciseng
dc.rightsAttribution CC BY-NC-NDeng
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/eng
dc.titleBuilding a sector reputation: the strategic communication of national higher educationeng
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.date.updated2016-08-24T11:55:15Z
dc.description.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2016 The Authorsen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/1553118X.2016.1176567
dc.identifier.cristin1359338


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