Evaluating the administrative efficiency of courts

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Business, Decision Sciences, Performance Management +10

The Measurement of Productive Efficiency

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Agriculture, Business Economics, Economics +12

A Behavioral Theory of the Firm

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The Role-Set: Problems in Sociological Theory

Robert Κ. Merton · British Journal of Sociology · 1957 · 927 citations

Humanities, Sociology, Economic Sociology +5