Sustainability Synergies or Silos? The Opportunity Costs of Local Government Organizational Capabilities.
Public managers serve many sovereigns, work within fiscal constraints, and face competing demands for finite resources. This article applies a strategic management lens to local government sustainability capabilities to examine the conditions under which local governments diversify into new areas of...
| Published in: | Public Administration Review Vol. 80; no. 6; pp. 1024 - 1035 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov/Dec2020
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