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Implementation Structures: A New Unit of Administrative Analysis

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Once the legitimate use of formal organizations was confined to government agencies and business firms. It is now a (de facto) constitutional right in most Western countries used to further almost any kind of human activity and interest. The result is the “organizational society.”

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Hjern, B., Porter, D.O. (1983). Implementation Structures: A New Unit of Administrative Analysis. In: Holzner, B., Knorr, K.D., Strasser, H. (eds) Realizing Social Science Knowledge. Institut für Höhere Studien — Institute for Advanced Studies IHS-Studies. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-41492-7_19

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