Theory-driven approaches to analysing collaborative performance

Public Management Review

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 751-771

  Skelcher, Chris ^a   Sullivan, Helen ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Collaboration; Evaluation; Governance; Performance; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 55849147005     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719030802423103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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