The 'brand name' research university goes global

Higher Education

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 125-140

  Sidhu, Ravinder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Governmentality; Knowledge economies; Research; Transnational education

Indexed keywords

EID: 58549086120     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-008-9136-2     Document Type: Article

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