Understanding the ‘differentiated consumer’ in public services

The Consumer in Public Services: Choice, Values and Difference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 72-76

  Simmons, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

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