Core Concepts and Key Ideas for Understanding Public Sector Organizational Networks: Using Research to Inform Scholarship and Practice

Public Administration Review

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 638-648

  Provan, Keith G ^a   Lemaire, Robin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 84865389743     PISSN: 00333352     EISSN: 15406210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02595.x     Document Type: Article

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