Informed Authority?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gläser, Jochen ^a   Lange, Stefan ^b   Laudel, Grit ^c   Schimank, Uwe ^d  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer   (Germany)

^c Rathenau Institute KNAW   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Australia; Authority; Lower saxony; Research evaluation systems; University management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921591530     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590193.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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