Monitoring across sectors: Examining the effect of nonprofit and for-profit contractor ownership on performance monitoring in state and local contracts

Public Administration Review

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 742-755

  Amirkhanyan, Anna A ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77956153056     PISSN: 00333352     EISSN: 15406210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2010.02202.x     Document Type: Article

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