Top-down management: An effective tool in higher education

International Journal of Educational Management

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 6-16

  Tsai, Yau ^a   Beverton, Sue ^b  

^a FOOYIN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; Managerialism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846106045     PISSN: 0951354X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09513540710716786     Document Type: Article

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