Introduction: Managing the ‘unmanageable consumer’

The Consumer in Public Services: Choice, Values and Difference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-17

  Powell, Martin ^a   Doheny, Shane ^b   Greener, Ian ^c   Mills, Nick ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

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