We are just back from the EUPRERA Annual Congress, organised by the University of Bucharest, looking grand in its 160 years of history.

The congress was a success both in participation with nearly 200 attendants and in scientific contribution, with works on the theme “The Art of Communication”, grasping the legacy and challenges of the unprecedented times we are facing, characterized by fast-facing changes.

The Annual Congress is also time to hand out the EUPRERA Best Paper Awards. As always, the Awards were given to the authors of three papers with the highest rankings in a blind peer-review process performed by experienced reviewers from the EUPRERA community, under the guidance of the Heads of the Scientific Committee, Alina Dolea and Sarah Marschlich.

EUPRERA Best Paper Awards

The three winning papers:

Strategic Communication and Value Creation: Towards a Multi-Perspective Understanding of the Value-Formation Process in Strategic Communication Management
by Rickard Andersson

This paper significantly contributes to understanding the value formation process in strategic communication management. It proposes a novel multi-perspective that integrates the stakeholder, organizational, and societal perspectives. It has academic relevance and strong link with professional practice especially since demonstrating how strategic communication management creates value has long been considered a critical challenge for communication departments and managers. Moreover, it advances the theorizing of value creation in strategic communication.

Interdisciplinary Patchwork: A Bibliometric Analysis of Investor Relations and Financial Communication
by Laura Hackl

This paper provides a state-of-the-art overview of an important area that is less studied, investor relations and financial communication. It uses a bibliometric approach that draws on big data analysis and opportunities for different forms of analysis that technology/AI allows. Through the historical review, it nicely positions itself in relation to previous literature, highlighting similarities, differences, and relationships. It is a well-designed and methodologically sound interdisciplinary paper that significantly contributes to the under-developed study of investor relations and financial communication as part of strategic communication.

Policy Window and News Media Lobbying – Crisis Narratives of Finnish Trade Associations During a Public Health Crisis
by Markus Tapani Mykkänen, Chiara Valentini

This paper explores how the three major Finish trade associations used news media for lobbying during the pandemic. It is innovative in the sense that it tries to combine the theory of policy windows/cycles with the study of media lobbying. The combination of these approaches constitutes the originality of the study. The authors show the main narratives and meta-narratives the trade associations used, emphasizing the importance of timing. Overall, this is a very well-executed and argued study. It is neat, clear and relevant both for practice and research. The research on how lobbyists are arguing and how they work through media is understudied and this paper contributes to the literature on lobbying, interest groups and strategic communication.

Special recognition to the best reviewer

EUPRERA Best Reviewer Award recognizes the work done by the reviewer because it is an essential contribution to the quality and success of the annual congress. This year’s winner is:

Dr Martina Topić,
College of Communication and Information Sciences, The University of Alabama

Dr. Topić stood out through the number of high-quality reviews she did for EUPRERA this year. Her feedback was detailed, diligent and constructive, with lots of suggestions offered to help authors develop and improve their papers.
Her willingness to help and pick-up last-minute additional reviews was also genuinely appreciated by the Scientific Committee.

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