Annual General Meetings of NHS Trusts: Devolving Power or Ritualising Accountability?

Financial Accountability and Management

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 377-399

  Hodges, Ron ^a   Macniven, Louise ^a   Mellett, Howard ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Accountability; Annual general meetings; NHS; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247888584     PISSN: 02674424     EISSN: 14680408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0408.2004.00200.x     Document Type: Article

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