Key strategies for making new institutional sense: Ingredients to higher education transformation

Higher Education Policy

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-53

  Eckel, Peter D ^a   Kezar, Adrianna ^b  

^a American Council on Education   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic management; Institutional change; Leadership; Sense making; Social congnition

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442694326     PISSN: 09528733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.hep.8300001     Document Type: Article

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