Groupthink in academia majoritarian departmental politics and the professional pyramid

Independent Review

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 585-600

  Klein, Daniel B ^a   Stern, Charlotta ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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