The new tools of the science trade: Contested knowledge production and the conceptual vocabularies of academic capitalism

Social Anthropology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 439-462

  Hoffman, Steve G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Institutional change; Knowledge production; Organisations; Science; University industry relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 82255186300     PISSN: 09640282     EISSN: 14698676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8676.2011.00180.x     Document Type: Article

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