Corporate reputation and perceived risk in professional engineering services

Corporate Communications: An International Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 121-128

  Ewing, Michael T ^a   Caruana, Albert ^b   Rinson Loy, Ernest ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^c Pro Dynamics Consultants Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Consultants; Corporate image; Risk; Singapore

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986165555     PISSN: 13563289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13563289910288320     Document Type: Article

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