Institutional heterogeneity and change: The University as fool

Organization

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 575-595

  Kavanagh, Donncha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Business schools; Education; Foolishness; History; Institutional theory; Learning; University

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349330791     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508409104509     Document Type: Article

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