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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809901203321

Titolo

Responding to crisis : a rhetorical approach to crisis communication / / edited by Dan Pyle Millar, Robert L. Heath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004

ISBN

0-8058-4060-5

1-135-64024-6

1-283-29387-0

9786613293879

1-4106-0949-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (388 p.)

Collana

LEA's communication series

Altri autori (Persone)

MillarDan Pyle <1938->

HeathRobert L <1941-> (Robert Lawrence)

Disciplina

658.4/056

Soggetti

Crisis management

Communication in management

Organizational change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Crisis preparation : planning for the inevitable -- pt. 2. Crisis response : the time to speak -- pt. 3. After the dance is over : postcrisis response.

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years, researchers and practitioners have explored the nature, theory, and best practices that are required for effective and ethical crisis preparation and response. The consequences of being unprepared to respond quickly, appropriately, and ethically to a crisis are dramatic and well documented. For this reason, crisis consulting and the development of crisis response plans and protocols have become more than a cottage industry.   Taking a rhetorical view of crisis events and utterances, this book is devoted to adding new insights to the discussion, and to describing a