From bureaucratic administration to network administration? An empirical study on e-government focus on Catalonia

Public Organization Review

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 299-316

  Welp, Yanina ^a   Urgell, Ferran ^b   Aibar, Eduard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

E government; Governance; Network administration; New Public Management (NPM); Weberian bureaucracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 36649011167     PISSN: 15667170     EISSN: 15737098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11115-007-0038-z     Document Type: Article

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