Shaping the field

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Shaping the field: Bob Heath and the two volumes of the

Encyclopedia of Public Relations

Robert L. Heatha,1, W. Timothy Coombsb,2, Lee Edwardsc,3,

Michael J. Palenchard,4, David McKiee,∗

a University of Houston (Emeritus), United States b Nicholson School of Communication, University of Central Florida, FL 32816-1344, United States c Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom d 476 Communications Building, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States e Management Communication Department, University of Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand

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Article history:

Received 1 October 2013

Accepted 27 November 2013

Keywords:

Encyclopedia

Public relations

Handbook

Inspirational ontology

Community

a b s t r a c t

The five papers on this theme emerged from a plenary panel with the same title as the one

above at the third Barcelona International PR Conference held on 2–3 July, 2013. They were

stimulated by the then-forthcoming publication of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of

Public Relations although they also address the first edition, the place of both in the public

relations field, and links to issues surrounding encyclopedias in general. At the time of

this submission, most of the authors had not seen the complete published copy that was

released in late September, 2013. All five articles, albeit with some overlap as this was not a

co-written project, are presented here as individual pieces with differenttitles and a variety

of approaches.

© 2013 Published by Elsevier Inc.

∗ Corresponding author. Tel.: +64 7 838 4197; fax: +64 7 838 4358.

E-mail addresses: [email protected], [email protected] (R.L. Heath), [email protected] (W.T. Coombs), [email protected] (L. Edwards),

[email protected] (M.J. Palenchar), [email protected] (D. McKie).

1 Tel.: +1 979 278 3911.

2 Tel.: +1 407 823 81957.

3 Tel.: +44 0113 343 7007.

4 Tel.: +1 856 974 9082.