Designing operative productivity measures in public services

VINE

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-67

  Jääskeläinen, Aki ^a   Lönnqvist, Antti ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Intangible assets; Intellectual capital; Performance measures; Productivity rate; Public sector organizations

Indexed keywords

INTANGIBLE ASSETS; INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PRODUCTIVITY RATE; PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATION;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 70049090784     PISSN: 03055728     EISSN: 14741032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03055720910962443     Document Type: Article

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