Paradoxes of optimisation in public service management

Kybernetes

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 25-29

  Dewhurst, D ^a  

^a Cybernetics Society   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Optimization techniques; Public sector organizations

Indexed keywords

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; OPTIMISATIONS; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; ORGANISATIONAL; PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DOMAINS; PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATION; PUBLIC SERVICES; TARGET SETTING;

CYBERNETICS;

EID: 33645230756     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920610640209     Document Type: Article

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