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Strategic integrated communication on South African nonprofit organisation websites

Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2009.

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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/26684 Strategic integrated communication on South African nonprofit organisation websites Leonard, Anne chantalle@mweb.co.za Schutte, Chantalle Nonprofit sector South africa UCTD Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2009. South Africa’s democratic political regime opened up a global operating environment, affecting all sectors of the economy including the nonprofit sector. Models of sustainability have become more important than ever, with an increased emphasis on management models in this sector. New information and communication technologies such as the Internet and especially website technology have produced a challenging need for communication management paradigms. Operating within a context of increasing uncertainty may lead to nonprofit organisations looking outside the boundaries of their own sector for new management models and ideas. Strategic integrated communication is a management idea rooted in private sector knowledge. More specifically, Niemann’s (2005) conceptual model for the implementation of strategic integrated communication has the potential to address the sustainability issue within the website arena. The present study evaluates the application of strategic integrated communication according to Niemann’s (2005) conceptual model, among a selection of South African nonprofit organisation websites. Lack of research regarding strategic integrated communication within the South African nonprofit sector was the main motivating factor for this study. The study also represents an attempt to empirically test Niemann’s (2005) normative model within a specific context, thus helping to assess the scientific validity of the model. An exploratory qualitative research design was employed, with evidence collected by means of a content analysis of nonprofit websites and an e-mail questionnaire intended for the most senior communication/marketing staff member of each organisation. From an external perspective, nonprofit websites display many of the elements of Niemann’s (2005) conceptual model. Yet, evidence about the internal communication management aspects of the same organisations indicates that essential elements of the model are absent. Copyright Communication Management MCom Unrestricted 2013-09-07T07:12:41Z 2010-07-26 2013-09-07T07:12:41Z 2010-04-28 2009 2010-07-26 Dissertation Schutte, C 2009, Strategic integrated communication on South African nonprofit organisation websites, MCom Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26684> E10/298/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26684 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07262010-160852/ © 2009, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria
spellingShingle Nonprofit sector
South africa
UCTD
Strategic integrated communication on South African nonprofit organisation websites
title Strategic integrated communication on South African nonprofit organisation websites
title_full Strategic integrated communication on South African nonprofit organisation websites
title_fullStr Strategic integrated communication on South African nonprofit organisation websites
title_full_unstemmed Strategic integrated communication on South African nonprofit organisation websites
title_short Strategic integrated communication on South African nonprofit organisation websites
title_sort strategic integrated communication on south african nonprofit organisation websites
topic Nonprofit sector
South africa
UCTD
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26684
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07262010-160852/