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Nowadays, innovations are crucial for nations, the progress of societies and the success of companies. But only if they are noticed and appreciated by people in their daily lives, employees, customers, experts, academics, journalists, and other opinion leaders, they can fully be effective. Therefore, communication management has to take into consideration, that the advantages of innovations can be re-evaluated from different points of view—employees worrying about their jobs, companies struggling for sustaining their competitiveness, or customers who mistrust products with the label “innovative”. It is the balance between facts and figures on the one hand, and emotions on the other, which is often neglected in internal and external corporate communication. The article presents a balanced framework for creating a communication strategy for innovations and discusses results of surveys from communication directors in the top 500 companies in Germany.
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Sample: TOP 500 enterprises (turnover) and DAX enterprises of Germany; n = 121, survey period: December 2012/January 2013.
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Mast, C. (2017). Managing Emotions Matters—A Balanced Framework for Communicating Innovations in Companies. In: Pfeffermann, N., Gould, J. (eds) Strategy and Communication for Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49542-2_11
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