Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one: Introduction to the performance measurement symposium

International Review of Administrative Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 531-534

  Van Dooren, Wouter ^a,b   Van de Walle, Steven ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 58149345953     PISSN: 00208523     EISSN: 14617226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020852308098466     Document Type: Editorial

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