Modeling public management: Empirical analysis of the management-performance nexus

Public Management Review

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 503-527

  Meier, Kenneth J ^a   O'Toole Jr , Laurence J ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Governance; Managerial networking; Managerial quality; Measurement; Network behaviour; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 37049028356     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719030701726630     Document Type: Conference Paper

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