The complexity of institutional niches: Credentials and organizational differentiation in a field of U.S. higher education

Poetics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 411-446

  Rawlings, Craig M ^a   Bourgeois, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 10144242642     PISSN: 0304422X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

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