The road to integration. Reflections on the development of organizational evaluation theory and practice

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Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 295-307

  Gregory, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Effectiveness; Efficiency; Evaluation; Systems

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; DIFFERENT STAGES; EFFECTIVENESS; EVALUATION; ORGANISATIONAL; ORGANIZATION THEORY; PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT; SIMILAR PATTERN; SYSTEM; THEORY AND PRACTICE;

EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATION;

ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION THEORY;

EVALUATION;

EID: 0030153331     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-0483(96)00005-9     Document Type: Article

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