Can business learn from the public sector?

European Business Review

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 373-379

  Heracleous, Loizos ^a   Johnston, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate strategy; Learning; Public sector organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349139311     PISSN: 0955534X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09555340910970454     Document Type: Article

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