Digging deeper: Crisis management in the coal industry

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 298-316

  Miller, Barbara M ^a   Horsley, Suzanne ^b  

^a ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coal Mining; Crisis Communication; Crisis Management; High Reliability Organizations (HRO); Sensemaking Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349882130     PISSN: 00909882     EISSN: 14795752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00909880903025903     Document Type: Article

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