Varieties of new public management or alternative models? The reform of public service employment relations in industrialized democracies

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2281-2294

  Bach, Stephen ^a   Bordogna, Lorenzo ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Comparative HRM; Employment relations; New public management; Public administration; Public sector

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960921062     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2011.584391     Document Type: Article

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