Corporate crisis planning: Tensions, issues, and contradictions

Journal of Communication Management

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 371-389

  Pang, Augustine ^a   Cropp, Fritz ^a   Cameron, Glen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication management; Contingency planning; Corporate strategy; Decentralized control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993074041     PISSN: 1363254X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13632540610714818     Document Type: Article

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