What is a Public Relations "Crisis?" Refocusing Crisis Research

The Handbook of Crisis Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 705-712

  Kent, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crises, unpredictable threats to organizations; Focus on heuristics; National Communication Association (NCA) joking on splitting off into separate "crisis division"; Organization laying off thousands of employees as a "crisis"; Public relations "crisis" refocusing crisis research; Public Relations Review; Reputational and media communication issues; Study of crisis communication in public relations need to evolve

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EID: 84873172928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314885.ch37     Document Type: Chapter

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