Public, private, not-for-profit: everybody is unique?

Measuring Business Excellence

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 5-11

  Euske, K J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Learning; Non profit organizations; Private sector organizations; Public companies

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749184594     PISSN: 13683047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13683040310509250     Document Type: Article

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