Through the looking glass: A decade of Red Cross crisis response and situational crisis communication theory

Public Relations Review

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-27

  Fussell Sisco, Hilary ^a   Collins, Erik L ^b   Zoch, Lynn M ^c  

^a QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c RADFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis communication; Nonprofit public relations; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 74449093468     PISSN: 03638111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2009.08.018     Document Type: Article

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