'''Issues management''' is a term that was coined in 1976 by [[Howard Chase (Late PR Professional, Academic)|W. Howard Chase]] (commonly referred to as Howard Chase) to describe a PR-oriented process intended to identify emerging issues generated from outside the organization. <ref> "Obituary: Chase, Father of Issues Management, Dead at 1993", ''The Holmes Report'', August 25, 2003, p. 10. </ref> In 1984 Chase ''Issue Management: Origins of the Future'', which has been described by ''The Holmes Report'' as "one of the seminal texts of the emerging discipline of issues management". <ref> "Obituary: Chase, Father of Issues Management, Dead at 1993", ''The Holmes Report'', August 25, 2003, p. 10. </ref>
==Books==