Evaluating Social Service Agencies: Fuzzy Pictures of Organizational Effectiveness

Voluntas

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-79

  Tassie, Bill ^a   Murray, Vic ^b   Cutt, James ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accountability; Effectiveness measurement; Organizational evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542588890     PISSN: 09578765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021455029092     Document Type: Article

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