On Justification Work: How Compromising Enables Public Managers to Deal with Conflicting Values

Public Administration Review

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 52-63

  Oldenhof, Lieke ^a   Postma, Jeroen ^a   Putters, Kim ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84894718671     PISSN: 00333352     EISSN: 15406210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/puar.12153     Document Type: Article

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