West Pharmaceutical's explosion: Structuring crisis discourse knowledge

Public Relations Review

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 467-473

  Coombs, W Timothy ^a  

^a EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis Communication Standards; Crisis management; Organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 8844231769     PISSN: 03638111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2004.08.007     Document Type: Article

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