The paracrisis: The challenges created by publicly managing crisis prevention

Public Relations Review

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 408-415

  Coombs, W Timothy ^a   Holladay, J Sherry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis communication; Crisis management; Paracrisis; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862487995     PISSN: 03638111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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