The changing nature of the academic deanship

Leadership

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 347-364

  de Boer, Harry ^a   Goedegebuure, Leo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic deanship; Changes in higher education; Higher education leadership and management; Middle management

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949178812     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: 17427169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715009337765     Document Type: Article

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