Crisis communications preparedness among U.S. organizations: Activities and assessments by public relations practitioners

Public Relations Review

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 367-376

  Cloudman, Reghan ^a   Hallahan, Kirk ^b  

^a Building D   (United States)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Crisis plans; Crisis preparedness; Organizational size; Organizational public relationships; Process orientation; Public relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750605342     PISSN: 03638111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2006.09.005     Document Type: Article

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