The absorption of research knowledge by public civil servants

Evidence and Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 331-350

  Ouimet, Mathieu ^a,b   Landry, Réjean ^a   Ziam, Saliha ^a   Bédard, Pierre Olivier ^c  

^a Department of Political Science ^*  (United States)

^b Université Laval   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Civil servants; Cross sectional survey; Path analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950940600     PISSN: 17442648     EISSN: 17442656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/174426409X478734     Document Type: Article

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