What Organization Theorists and Public Policy Researchers Can Learn from One Another: Publicness Theory as a Case-in-Point

Organization Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 169-188

  Bozeman, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

dimensional publicness; interdisciplinary; organizational studies; public policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874215554     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612473549     Document Type: Article

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