From government-driven to commercially-driven mergers: Changing drivers for upscaling in the dutch water supply sector

Water Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 317-325

  Schwartz, Klaas ^a  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Mergers; Netherlands; Water supply sector

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958709517     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2010.031     Document Type: Article

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