Reframing privatisation: Deconstructing the myth of efficiency

Policy Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 159-183

  Letza, Steve R ^a   Smallman, Clive ^b   Sun, Xiuping ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIVATIZATION; PUBLIC SECTOR; PUBLIC SERVICE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 9144241828     PISSN: 00322687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:OLIC.0000048530.30139.98     Document Type: Review

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