Learning from each other: Promises and pitfalls of benchmarking in communications policy

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Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 8-20

  Bauer, Johannes M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Communications; Decision making; Learning methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957303648     PISSN: 14636697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14636691011086017     Document Type: Article

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