Higher education mergers: Integrating organisational cultures and developing appropriate management styles

Higher Education Quarterly

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-102

  Locke, William ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 40249108373     PISSN: 09515224     EISSN: 14682273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2273.2006.00339.x     Document Type: Article

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