Leadership in public services networks: Antecedents, process and outcome

Public Administration

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 242-264

  Currie, Graeme ^a   Grubnic, Suzana ^b   Hodges, Ron ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; LEADERSHIP; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; PUBLIC SERVICE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 79959567424     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2011.01931.x     Document Type: Article

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