Conceptualizing crisis communication

Handbook of Risk and Crisis Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 99-118

  Timothy Coombs, W ^a  

^a EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203891629-11     Document Type: Chapter

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