Dialogue as global issue management: Legitimizing Corporate Influence in the Transatlantic Business Dialogue

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 204-240

  Zoller, Heather M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

globalization; government business dialogues; harmonization; health and environment; Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD); two way symmetrical model of public relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990386025     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318904265126     Document Type: Article

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