Corporations' ideologies: A new subfield of study of corporate communication

Corporate Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 353-370

  Fox, Renata ^a  

^a Faculty of Economics and Tourism "dr Mijo Mirkovi "   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Corporate communications; Critical thinking; Discipline; Ideas generation; Language; Linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750257794     PISSN: 13563289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13563280610713842     Document Type: Article

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