Corporate responsibility in communication: Empirical analysis of press releases in a conflict

Business Communication Quarterly

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 432-449

  Lehtimäki, Hanna ^a   Kujala, Johanna ^a   Heikkinen, Anna ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

business ethics; communicating conflict; conventionalist analysis; stakeholder communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655180449     PISSN: 10805699     EISSN: 15524191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1080569911424203     Document Type: Article

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