Bridging corporate and organizational communication: Review, development and a look to the future

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 383-414

  Christensen, Lars Thø ^a   Cornelissen, Joep ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

consistency; corporate communication; cross fertilization; wholeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961229850     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: 15526798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318910390194     Document Type: Review

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