Organizational segmentation and the prestige economy: Deprofessionalization in highand low-resource departments

Journal of Higher Education

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 27-54

  Rosinger, Kelly Ochs ^a   Taylor, Barrett J ^b   Coco, Lindsay ^c   Slaughter, Sheila ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic capitalism; Faculty work; Organizational segmentation; Prestige economy; Professionalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949646112     PISSN: 00221546     EISSN: 15384640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2016.11777393     Document Type: Article

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