Malaysia Airlines Essay

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THE COMMUNICATION CYCLE

Research and implementation
Company: Malaysia Airlines

Student name: Céline Moutic
Student number: 524490
Supervisor: Mark Tawil & John Clancy
Date: June 2015
Inholland University of Applied Sciences

Abstract

This research report explores a thorough understanding of how Malaysia Airlines is currently communicating towards its stakeholders following two airline tragedies that affected the company last March and July 2014. The objective of the research is to analyze how Malaysia Airlines communicated and acted towards external stakeholders during and following two fatal accidents that occurred in a five-month span. With the research, we want to find out whether certain actions have been taken into account …show more content…

Further, the surveys that have been administered to respondents will be analysed and used to answer one of the sub-research questions.

1.4 Delimitations

Due to practical limitations, only a few of MAS’s press releases will be analysed, hence not giving a thorough and comprehensive overview of the strategies applied during the two airline crashes. Additionally, the choice of news articles might also affect the scope and result of the analysis, the choice of the most renowned and read news agencies have been selected, however it is always delicate to “trust” that this given news agency is truthful about facts on the research topic. This will subsequently not be representative of the research as a whole.

2. Theoretical framework
2.1 Crisis communication
In order to answer the central research question, this research paper has recourse to educational books, MAS’s corporate website, scientific articles, press releases published by MAS, news articles found online, and lastly, an outcome analysis of surveys administered to a given

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