Introducing benchmarking in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: Processes, problems and lessons

Public Management Review

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 673-684

  Nemec, Juraj ^a   Merickova, Beata ^a   Ochrana, Frantisek ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Czech Republic; Performance; Performance benchmarking; Process benchmarking; Public services; Slovakia

Indexed keywords

EID: 53249140414     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719030802264424     Document Type: Article

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