Is corporate communications a strategic function?

Management Decision

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 99-107

  Dolphin, Richard R ^a   Fan, Ying ^b  

^a Foxhunters West Hatch ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate communications; Public relations; Strategy; UK

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344785985     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740010317450     Document Type: Article

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