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Filling The House: Engaging A Millennial Performing Arts Audience, Sarah Schreck
Filling The House: Engaging A Millennial Performing Arts Audience, Sarah Schreck
Honors Undergraduate Theses
The purpose of this research is to identify best practices for public relations professionals when engaging with a Millennial performing arts audience, focusing on Hon and Grunig's relationship management theory (1999) and Kent and Taylor’s theory of dialogic communication (2014) to build interactivity in a digital space. Performing arts organizations have successfully engaged with previous generations, but are facing new challenges when communicating with millennial audiences. Changing demographics have led to a stagnation and decline of performing arts attendance as the millennial generation has come of age. This massive population has new priorities for spending and consumption of entertainment, and …
Marketing Practices Of Socially Responsible And Sustainable Businesses, Brooke A. Bivins
Marketing Practices Of Socially Responsible And Sustainable Businesses, Brooke A. Bivins
Honors Undergraduate Theses
The topic of this research is marketing practices of socially responsible and sustainable businesses. It examines the strategies companies and brands use to represent themselves to the public through products, advertising, and philanthropy. This includes an evaluation of existing frameworks and case studies, as well as in-depth interviews. The question that this research will answer is as follows: How can new or existing companies embrace and integrate social responsibility or sustainability in a way that is authentic and contributes to a positive public reputation?
Younger generations are increasingly willing to switch to and, in some cases, pay more for products …