Defending rights or defending privileges?; rethinking the ethics of research in public service organizations

Public Management Review

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 257-272

  Dixon Woods, Mary ^a   Bosk, Charles L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Public service; Research; Research ethics committees; Staff

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952018193     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2010.532966     Document Type: Article

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