Bureaucratic Utopia Reconsidered

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Alvehus, J. (2018). Bureaucratic Utopia Reconsidered. Kultura I Społeczeństwo, 62(4), 153-157. https://doi.org/10.35757/KiS.2018.62.4.8

Johan Alvehus  johan.alvehus@ism.lu.se
Department of Service Management and Service Studies Lund University  Szwecja
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1578-1682