The formalization of the university: Rules, roots, and routes

Higher Education

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 695-708

  Ramirez, Francisco O ^a   Christensen, Tom ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Formalization; Neo institutional theory; Path dependency; Rules; Stanford University; University of Oslo

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877619430     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-012-9571-y     Document Type: Article

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