Caught By Surprise?: Micro-mobilization, new media and the management of strategic surprises

Public Management Review

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1003-1021

  Bekkers, Victor ^a   Edwards, Arthur ^a   Moody, Rebecca ^a   Beunders, Henri ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Erasmus University Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Micro mobilization; new media; strategic surprises; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859253563     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2011.589615     Document Type: Article

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