Better Tools, Better Workers: Toward a Lateral Alignment of Technology, Policy, Labor, and Management

American Review of Public Administration

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 449-478

  Haines, David W ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Information technology; Management; Workers' compensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342534464     PISSN: 02750740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0275074003256966     Document Type: Article

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