"everybody identitiefies with smokey the bear": Employee responses to newsletter identification inducements at the U.S. forest service

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 347-399

  DiSanza, James R ^a   Bullis, Connie ^b  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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EID: 0000497436     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: 15526798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318999123001     Document Type: Article

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