Different cultures of management and their relationships with organizational performance: Evidence from the UK ambulance service

Public Money and Management

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 381-388

  Wankhade, Paresh ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambulance service; management cultures; performance; subcultures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863466678     PISSN: 09540962     EISSN: 14679302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2012.676312     Document Type: Article

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