Testing the boundaries of public private partnership: The privatisation of the UK Defence Evaluation and Research Agency

Science and Public Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 155-161

  James, Andrew D ^a   Cox, Deborah ^a   Rigby, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIVATIZATION; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP;

EID: 18944395624     PISSN: 03023427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3152/147154305781779579     Document Type: Article

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