Scorecards for sustainable local governments

Cities

Volumn 39, Issue , 2014, Pages 165-170

  Cruz, Nuno Ferreira da ^a   Marques, Rui Cunha ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Governance; Indicators; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901243003     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2014.01.001     Document Type: Article

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