Professions, organizations, and institutions: Tenure systems in Colleges and Universities

Work and Occupations

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 340-371

  Park, Sangchan ^a   Sine, Wesley D ^b   Tolbert, Pamela S ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b and History   (United States)

Author keywords

colleges and universities; implementation; institutions; professions; tenure systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961095198     PISSN: 07308884     EISSN: 15528464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0730888411412725     Document Type: Article

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