CEO presentations in conjunction with earnings announcements: Extending the Construct of Organizational Genre Through Competing Values Profiling and User-Needs Analysis

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 426-485

  Rogers, Priscilla S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 84990339253     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318900133003     Document Type: Article

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