Disseminating the right information to the right audience: Cultural determinants in the use (and misuse) of rankings

Higher Education

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 373-385

  Cremonini, Leon ^a   Westerheijden, Don ^a   Enders, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

College choice; Consumer information; Culture; Higher education; Information processing; Ranking; Report card; Students

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849156895     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-007-9062-8     Document Type: Article

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