Mixed companies and local governance: No man can serve two masters

Public Administration

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 737-758

  Da Cruz, Nuno Ferreira ^a   Marques, Rui Cunha ^a  

^a Center for Management Studies   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 84866023116     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2011.02020.x     Document Type: Article

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