Foundings and terminations: Organizational change in the Norwegian state administration 1947-2011

International Journal of Public Administration

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 783-794

  Rolland, Vidar W ^a   Roness, Paul G ^b  

^a Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Foundings; Organizational change; State agencies; Terminations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870269835     PISSN: 01900692     EISSN: 15324265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2012.715562     Document Type: Article

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