Bureaucracy and new management paradigms: Modeling foresters' perceptions regarding community-based forest management in India

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 651-669

  Kumar, Sushil ^a   Kant, Shashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asia; Bureaucracy; Community forestry; Forest departments; India; Institutions; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY-BASED FOREST MANAGEMENT (CBFM); ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL RIGIDITY; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

FORESTRY;

CENTRALIZATION; DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; ORGANIZATIONS;

EID: 13444257974     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2004.02.001     Document Type: Article

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