Does bureaucracy affect research performance of public research organizations?

Proceedings of ISSI 2007 - 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 216-225

  Coccia, Mario ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Efficiency; Organization rules; Research laboratory; Research performance

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

BUREAUCRACY; NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL; PUBLIC RESEARCH; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84902201811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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