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Going to market! An exploration of markets in social care

By: Majella Mulkeen  
Open Access
|Sep 2016

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/admin-2016-0015 | Journal eISSN: 2449-9471 | Journal ISSN: 0001-8325
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