Introduction

Paul Jowett and Margaret Rothwell
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Paul Jowett: Monitor Company
Margaret Rothwell: Oxford Polytechnic

Chapter 1 in Performance Indicators in the Public Sector, 1988, pp 1-4 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In 1979 Mrs Thatcher came to power, Within a short period of time it became apparent that her government suspected that the public sector was inefficient, not because it had been the victim of insufficient funding, but because it had, throughout much of the postwar period, suffered from a lack of managerial incentives and clearly defined commercial objectives.

Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08987-1_1

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