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Title: Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: Creating a common, cross-agency understanding

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OSTI Identifier:
1809573
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AC02–06CH11357
Resource Type:
Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
European Journal of Operational Research
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: European Journal of Operational Research Journal Volume: 294 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0377-2217
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
Netherlands
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Sydelko, Pamela, Midgley, Gerald, and Espinosa, Angela. Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: Creating a common, cross-agency understanding. Netherlands: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2020.11.045.
Sydelko, Pamela, Midgley, Gerald, & Espinosa, Angela. Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: Creating a common, cross-agency understanding. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.11.045
Sydelko, Pamela, Midgley, Gerald, and Espinosa, Angela. Fri . "Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: Creating a common, cross-agency understanding". Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.11.045.
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