Are shared services a panacea for australian local government? a critical note on australian and international empirical evidence

International Review of Public Administration

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 89-102

  Dollery, Brian ^a   Akimov, Alexandr ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Local government; Shared services

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953524390     PISSN: 12294659     EISSN: 2331795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2008.10805107     Document Type: Article

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