Establishing the structure of reality for an industry: Model and anti-model arguments as advocacy in Nike's crisis communication

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 278-295

  Sellnow, Timothy L ^a   Brand, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anti model argument; Crisis communication; Nike; Perelman; Phil Knight

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035536751     PISSN: 00909882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00909880128109     Document Type: Article

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