For appropriateness or consequences? Explaining organizational change in English local government

Public Administration

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 661-680

  Entwistle, Tom ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79959550949     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2010.01850.x     Document Type: Article

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