Crisis Communication Research in Public Relations Journals: Tracking Research Trends over Thirty Years

The Handbook of Crisis Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 65-90

  An, Seon Kyoung ^a   Cheng, I Huei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Crisis communication research in public relations journals a 30 year research trend; Crisis issues and situations from political crises in government; Crisis types studied technical error accidents or equipment failure; Crisis typologies by Coombs and Holladay (2004); Issue management issues having impact on organization's image; Meta analyses in public relations research; Meta analysis of line of crisis communication research; Problems of little theory driven research and research gap between academia and industry; Review of theoretical frameworks (RQ2) and methodological trends (RQ3); Understanding dynamic communication process and crisis situation results

Indexed keywords

EID: 81055126531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314885.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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