Risk and Innovation: Towards a framework for risk governance in public services

Public Management Review

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 186-208

  Brown, Louise ^a   Osborne, Stephen P ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Innovation; public policy; public services; risk; social policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872562629     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2012.707681     Document Type: Article

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