Performance audit and evaluation: Similar tools, different relationships?

New Directions for Evaluation

Volumn 1996, Issue 71, 1996, Pages 29-50

  Pollitt, Christopher ^a   Summa, Hilkka ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Ministry of Finance Finland   (Finland)

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EID: 85016802582     PISSN: 10976736     EISSN: 1534875X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ev.1041     Document Type: Article

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