Accountability - are we better off without IT? An empirical study on the effects of accountability on public managers' work behaviour

Public Management Review

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 585-607

  Ossege, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accountability; New public management; Public manager; Quasi experimental

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868285097     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2011.642567     Document Type: Article

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