Learning Organizations in the Public Sector? A Study of Police Agencies Employing Information and Technology to Advance Knowledge.
In an attempt to reap the purported benefits that “knowledge workers” bring to organizations, many police departments have shifted to a community problem-oriented policing philosophy. Rather than focusing on enforcement and incarceration, this philosophy is based on the dissemination of information...
| Publicado en: | Public Administration Review Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 30 - 44 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
January/February 2003
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