Corporate reputation and the news media in the United States

Corporate Reputation and the News Media: Agenda-Setting within Business News Coverage in Developed, Emerging, and Frontier Markets

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 221-239

  Carroll, Craig E ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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EID: 84886349298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203868584     Document Type: Chapter

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