Changing Research Perspectives on the Management of Higher Education: Can Research Permeate the Activities of Manager-Academics?

Higher Education Quarterly

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 203-228

  Deem, Rosemary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 57049156374     PISSN: 09515224     EISSN: 14682273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2273.2006.00322.x     Document Type: Article

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