Thesis--Purdue University. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 247-254).

Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1993. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2962. Abstract precedes thesis as [1] preliminary leaf. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-93).

Thesis--University of Wisconsin. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 328-359).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Brsg., 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves x-xvii).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--George Peabody college for teachers. / Thesis note on label mounted on p.2 of cover. Bibliography: p. [135]-136.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois, 1964. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 208-217).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1946. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 294-297).

Thesis (M.A.)--Rowan University, 2006. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references.

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This study examines public relations practice in a developing country by looking at two Indonesian organisations - a commercial television station (RCTI) and a state university (UGM) - using a case study approach complemented with a qualitative analysis of the history of public relations practice at a societal level. Two theories about advanced public relations practice have been borrowed for the framework of the study. They are Grunig's model of public relations and Broom's public relations role theory. However, given the less developed practice of public relations in Indonesia, the present study did not intend to test these theories in a rigorous manner. Rather, the theories have been mainly used as guidance in analysing public relations practice in Indonesia. Modern public relations has been practiced in Indonesia as early as the 1940s. Public relations was used as part of Indonesia's struggle for independence, while the arrival of multinational corporations, and recent changes in national economic policy, has since extended public relations practice into the wider corporate world. While it is clear that both RCTI and UGM considered public relations important, they treated public relations in different ways. RCTI, as a private sector company, located its public relations department in the higher level of its organisational structure with the purpose of promoting the interests of the organisation and defending itself in the marketplace of ideas. UGM, as a public sector agency, located its public relations department in the lowest level of the organisational structure. Overall, public relations as an organisational activity was more important in RCTI. However, both organisations practiced the first two models of public relations, namely, the press agentry and the public information model, and public relations practitioners in both RCTI and UGM predominantly played the role of technicians.