Teaching Enron: The rhetoric and ethics of whistle-blowing

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 244-255

  House, Richard ^a   Watt, Anneliese ^a   Williams, Julia M ^a  

^a ROSE HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Case studies; Communication ethics; Enron; Organizational communication; Rhetorical analysis; Technical communication; Whistle blowing

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

CASE STUDIES; COMMUNICATION ETHICS; ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION; RHETORICAL ANALYSIS;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

EID: 10944229839     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2004.837971     Document Type: Article

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