Advancing sustainable management of public and not for profit organizations

Public Management Review

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 449-459

  Guthrie, James ^a   Ball, Amanda ^b   Farneti, Federica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Not for profit; Public sector; Public services; Social and environmental accounting; Sustainability management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954738946     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2010.496254     Document Type: Editorial

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