Bureaucracies remember, post-bureaucratic organizations forget?

Public Administration

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 198-218

  Pollitt, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; LEARNING; MEMORY; MODELING; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC SECTOR;

EID: 66349090426     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2008.01738.x     Document Type: Article

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