To Manage Is Not To Control: Or the Folly of Type II Errors.
We are often told that "To manage is to control." This phrase fuses two different concepts into synonymy. The bulk of the writing on management-control makes it evident that this construct is not a conjunction of two classes of administrative behavior. It is employed to exclude a distinguishable man...
| Publicado en: | Public Administration Review Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 148 - 157 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar/Apr79
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