Contingency Theory of Strategic Conflict Management: Directions for the Practice of Crisis Communication from a Decade of Theory Development, Discovery, and Dialogue

The Handbook of Crisis Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 527-549

  Pang, Augustine ^a   Jin, Yan ^b   Cameron, Glen T ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Analyses of factors influencing stance; Contingency theory of strategic conflict management; MNCs practicing public relations in South Korea; Paradigmatic theoretical shift to emerge satisfying three conditions; Public relations research and possibility and ethics of dialogue; Redefining communication during crises; Science behind the finesse of crisis communication; Testing and Expounding the Contingency Theory (1998 2001); Theory to inform crisis communication practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953328539     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314885.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

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