Ensuring Accountability In Human Services Contracting: Can Stewardship Theory Fill the Bill?

American Review of Public Administration

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 455-470

  Dicke, Lisa A ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0345755581     PISSN: 02750740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/027507402237870     Document Type: Article

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