Authority Relations as Condition for, and Outcome of, Shifts in Governance

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Morris, Norma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authority relations; Research funding; Research grants; UK research assessment exercise; UK universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921597734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590193.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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