Crisis-related research in communication and business journals: An interdisciplinary review from 1992 to 2011

This content analysis sheds light on research topic, method, theory, and authorship in crisis communication research published in communication and business journals and assesses which field has been more interdisciplinary in approach. Crisis research in communication has focused heavily on the effects of crisis management, using a quantitative approach and content analyses, with media articles as data sources. Business crisis research has concentrated mainly on evaluation of crisis events, using a qualitative approach and narrative analyses, and with practitioners as data sources. The data suggest that, in the past 20 years, crisis research in communication has been more interdisciplinary in terms of theory and authorship, whereas business has been more interdisciplinary in terms of methods. (c) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.