Japanese university reform-hybridity in governance and management

Higher Education Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 127-142

  Christensen, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

governance; Japan; New Public Management; reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751496531     PISSN: 09528733     EISSN: 17403863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/hep.2010.28     Document Type: Article

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