Accelerating the Americanization of Management Education: Five Responses From Business Schools

Journal of Management Inquiry

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 347-369

  Juusola, Katariina ^a   Kettunen, Kerttu ^b   Alajoutsijärvi, Kimmo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

American model; corporatization; higher education; institutional logics; marketization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940021027     PISSN: 10564926     EISSN: 15526542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1056492615569352     Document Type: Article

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