Made to measure: Taming practices with results-based accountability

Organization Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 97-120

  Keevers, Lynne ^a   Treleaven, Lesley ^b   Sykes, Christopher ^a   Darcy, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

accountability; community organizations; intra action; performative; practice based; social justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 83655190526     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840611430597     Document Type: Article

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