Web power: A survey of practitioners' World Wide Web use and their perceptions of its effects on their decision-making power

Public Relations Review

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 111-119

  Porter, Lance V ^a   Sallot, Lynne M ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Finkelstein's taxonomy of power; Power in public relations; Practitioners' web use; Upper echelons theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 13844319086     PISSN: 03638111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2004.11.014     Document Type: Article

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