Changing Authority Relations within French Academic Research Units since the 1960s

Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Louvel, Severine ^a,b  

^a Grenoble Institute of Political Studies   (France)

^b Laboratoire PACTE   (France)

Author keywords

Authority relations; Intra organizational authority; Mixed research units; Organized research units; Public science system; University research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921578912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590193.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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