Academic Institutions in Search of Quality: Local Orders and Global Standards

Organization Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 189-218

  Paradeise, Catherine ^a   Thoenig, Jean Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

academic quality; global standardization; ideal type approaches; local orders; organizational diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874199992     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612473550     Document Type: Article

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