Developing a criteriabased quality framework for measuring value

Performance Measurement and Metrics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-9

  Dixon, Pat ^a   Pickard, Alison ^a   Robson, Heather ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Local government; Performance measurement; Public libraries; Standards; Value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986015054     PISSN: 14678047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14678040210429886     Document Type: Article

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