Performing governance: A partnership board dramaturgy

Public Administration

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 907-929

  Freeman, Tim ^a   Peck, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH; PUBLIC SECTOR;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 36348955606     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2007.00683.x     Document Type: Article

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