Systems thinking for public services: Adopting manufacturing management principles

Systems Thinking: From Heresy to Practice: Public and Private Sector Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 147-174

  Jaaron, A M Ayham ^a   Backhouse, Chris J ^b  

^a AN NAJAH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85015851955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230299221     Document Type: Chapter

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