Public Managers Amidst Ambiguity: Towards a Typology of Evaluative Practices in Public Management

Evaluation

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 285-306

  Abma, Tineke A ^a   Noordegraaf, Mirko ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ambiguity; new public management; performance measurement; public management settings; typology of evaluation practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944443987     PISSN: 13563890     EISSN: 14617153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/13563890030093004     Document Type: Article

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