Business and professional approaches to quality improvement: A comparison of their suitability for the personal social services

Developing Quality in Personal Social Services: Concepts, Cases and Comments

Volumn 22, Issue , 2019, Pages 25-48

  Pollitt, Christopher ^a  

^a Researcher at the Centre for Social Research   (Norway)

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EID: 85079005301     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780429435249-3     Document Type: Chapter

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