Three Spheres of Performance Governance: Spanning the Boundaries from Single-Organization Focus towards a Partnership Network

Evaluation

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 399-419

  Uusikylä, Petri ^a   Valovirta, Ville ^b  

^a Net Effect Ltd   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

evaluation; governance; networks; rational models

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348900692     PISSN: 13563890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356389007082128     Document Type: Article

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