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Business Communication Quarterly


Cases Online

The March 1998 special issue included 15 original cases for classroom use. We have now run out of the print version of the journal, but this site provides .pdf versions for your use. You are welcome to download and print these for your classes. Copyright for any other use of this material rests with the ABC.

Listed below are links to the PDF files for all 15 cases plus the introduction to the special issue. The list also includes links to supplemental materials for some cases. The supplemental materials include sample student responses to assignments (with identifying information masked) as well as comments on those samples and teaching and learning notes. The materials are not intended to be answers to case problems nor models of best practices but points for analysis and discussion.

 

Links to PDF Files and Supplementary Materials for the Cases
Page#
in Issue
Priscilla S. Rogers, Jone Rymer
Business and Management Communication Cases: Challenges and Opportunities
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7
Jane Thomas
Rocky Mountain Mutual: Promoting Fun or Fitness
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26

James S. O'Rourke, IV
American Electrical: Managing an Environmental Crisis

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31

Barbara Shwom, Penny Hirsch, Judith Messick
Davis-Martin Public Relations: Negotiating Organizational Responsibility

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45
Jacqui Cleland, Catherine Wallace, Colleen Rigby
Information Solutions: Working With "Strangers" Within
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49
Linda Beamer
L.A. Silks: Negotiating to Conduct Business in China
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56
Judi Gaitens
Four Oaks Pavilion: Solving More Than Noise Problems
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84

Mark Schaub
Lester Crane: Getting Approval After the Fact

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99

Judy E. Lease
Sentry Insurance: Bringing Outsiders "In"

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112

Peter M. Saunders
Statstar Communications: Profiling Miscommunication

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120

Priscilla S. Rogers
TeknoSport: Communicating to Prevent Change

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139

Barbara L. Austin
Pansedik: Ordering Creative Chaos

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146

Katherine M. Erdman, Herbert W. Hildebrandt
Stovall Home Products: Practicing Prudence to Avoid Liability

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152

Penny Hirsch, Barbara Shwom, Judith Messick
Trustworthy Insurance: Information Timing and Telling the Truth

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164

Jone Rymer
Langley Communications: Socializing and Snooping on E-mail

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170

Teresa Chin, Sharmila Naidu, Jonathan Ringel, Wayne Snipes, Sherron Kenton Bienvenu, Jean DeSilva
Denny's: Communicating Amidst a Discrimination Case

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180

 

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