Using activity-based costing and simulation to reduce cost at a police communications centre

Policing

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 426-441

  Greasley, Andrew ^a   Smith, Chris M ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Effectiveness; Performance measure; Stress; United Kingdom; Workload

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018294163     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/PIJPSM-03-2016-0044     Document Type: Article

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