Public-private partnerships: Governance scheme or language game?

Australian Journal of Public Administration

Volumn 69, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Hodge, Graeme ^a   Greve, Carsten ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Long term infrastructure contract; Private finance initiative; Public interest; Value for money

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954722586     PISSN: 03136647     EISSN: 14678500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8500.2009.00659.x     Document Type: Article

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