Leading questions: Journal rankings, academic freedom and performativity: What is, or should be, the future of leadership?

Leadership

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 367-381

  Tourish, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

academic freedom; journal rankings; performativity; research assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051931629     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: 17427169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715011407385     Document Type: Article

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