The role of shared governance in institutional hard decisions: Enabler or antagonist?

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 15-39

  Eckel, Peter D ^a  

^a ACE   (United States)

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EID: 0034258397     PISSN: 01625748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/rhe.2000.0022     Document Type: Review

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