Emerging indicators and bureaucracy: From the iron cage to the metric cage

International Public Management Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 463-480

  Bernard, Benoît ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

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EID: 57049117463     PISSN: 10967494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10967490802494982     Document Type: Article

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