“It will happen again”: What SARS taught businesses about crisis management

Management Decision

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 822-836

  Day, Brennan ^a   Ishman, Michael ^a   Burnice Mckay, Ruth ^b   Chung, Ed ^c  

^a NIAGARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Business continuity; Contingency planning; Diseases; Emerging markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993025111     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740410550907     Document Type: Article

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