Pluralistic views of performance

Management Decision

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 741-750

  Fitzgerald, Lin ^a   Storbeck, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Performance measures; United Kingdom; Water industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986076329     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740310496251     Document Type: Article

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