The drive for transparency: Organizational field transformations in Swedish healthcare

Public Administration

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-82

  Blomgren, Maria ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; POLICY REFORM; PUBLIC SECTOR; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 33847790392     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2007.00634.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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