Determinants of consistent, timely, and active responses in corporate crises

Public Relations Review

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-17

  Huang, Yi Hui ^a   Su, Shih Hsin ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Lion Travel Group   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Determinant; Form of crisis response; Legal dominance; Public relations autonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 59649124434     PISSN: 03638111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2008.09.020     Document Type: Article

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