Customer care and the public service ethos

Public Administration

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 845-860

  Needham, Catherine ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; PUBLIC SECTOR; PUBLIC SERVICE; STATE ROLE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33750728893     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2006.00615.x     Document Type: Article

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