Between a rock and a hard place: Academic institutional change and the problem of collective action

Higher Education

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 511-528

  Hellström, Tomas ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

academe; collective action; deprofessionalization; external pressures; institutional change; norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 8144223171     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HIGH.0000046714.93103.5c     Document Type: Review

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