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This article examines the role that apologies play in situational crisis communication theory (SCCT) and focuses on a number of recent food-poisoning incidents. The article first establishes the importance of trust to firms with a marketing orientation, and the harm that comes when that trust is lost. This is followed by an overview of apologies versus pseudo-apologies and how both factor into the principles of SCCT. Finally, examples of five high-profile apologies related to food-poisoning incidents are provided and the way that the principles of SCCT were applied in each instance, along with the outcome, is explored.
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Dulaney, Emmett and Gunn, Rebecca
(2017)
"Situational Crisis Communication Theory and the Use of Apologies in Five High-Profile Food-Poisoning Incidents,"
Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences: Vol. 20
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