Agenda-building in the corporate sphere: Analyzing influence in the 2008 Yahoo!-Icahn proxy contest

Public Relations Review

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 257-265

  Ragas, Matthew W ^a   Kim, Jinsoo ^b   Kiousis, Spiro ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agenda building; Corporate elections; Financial public relations; Information subsidies; Proxy contests

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960698452     PISSN: 03638111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2011.03.012     Document Type: Article

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