Organisation response to institutional pressures in Higher Education: The important role of the disciplines

Higher Education

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-22

  Reale, Emanuela ^a   Seeber, Marco ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Higher Education; Institutional theory; Organisation response; Research evaluation; Research funding; Resource dependence theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650218149     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-010-9322-x     Document Type: Article

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