Are All Crises Opportunities? A Comparison of How Corporate and Government Organizations Responded to the 2009 Flu Pandemic

Journal of Public Relations Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-85

  Kim, Sora ^a   Liu, Brooke Fisher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 84862943609     PISSN: 1062726X     EISSN: 1532754X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1062726X.2012.626136     Document Type: Article

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