Policy transfer in practice: Implementing supplier diversity in the UK

Public Administration

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 779-803

  Ram, Monder ^a   Theodorakopoulos, Nick ^b   Worthington, Ian ^b  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL POLICY; PLANNING PRACTICE; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POLICY MAKING; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548208098     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2007.00671.x     Document Type: Article

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