The impact of new public management reforms on public servants' ethics: Towards a theory

Public Administration

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 465-489

  Maesschalck, Jeroen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC SECTOR; PUBLIC SERVICE;

EID: 2642513187     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0033-3298.2004.00403.x     Document Type: Article

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