Corporate blogging strategies of the Fortune 500 companies

Management Decision

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 316-334

  Lee, Sang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate communications; Online operations; Promotion; Reports; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645735872     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740610656232     Document Type: Article

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