Workforce management innovations in transportation agencies: Overcoming obstacles to public sector innovation

Innovation Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-15

  Zolnik, Edmund J ^a   Sutter, Ryan ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Public sector innovation; Transportation agencies; Workforce management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956859110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17153816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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