Reconfiguring Professional Work: Changing Forms of Professionalism in Public Services

Administration and Society

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 783-810

  Noordegraaf, Mirko ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

managerialism; professional work; professionalism; public services; societal change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981313783     PISSN: 00953997     EISSN: 15523039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095399713509242     Document Type: Article

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