Complexity and Crises: A New Paradigm

Dawn Gilpin, Priscilla Murphy

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18 Scopus citations
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationThe Handbook of Crisis Communication
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages683-690
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9781405194419
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 3 2010

Keywords

  • Analogy between crises and complex systems
  • Central area of practice and scholarship in public relations
  • Complexity and crises - a new paradigm
  • Complexity based approach - seeing crisis management as a transformation
  • Coombs and Holladay's Velcro effect of negative reputation
  • Dynamic evolution making complex systems - highly subject to its own history
  • Field of organizational crisis management
  • Intersection of strategic and complexity based crisis management
  • Knowledge and learning in crisis management and complexity
  • Relatively new field of complexity theory

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Social Sciences

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