Reflections: Academia's Emerging Crisis of Relevance and the Consequent Role of the Engaged Scholar

Journal of Change Management

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 77-96

  Hoffman, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

academia; Change; higher education; purpose; relevance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954165020     PISSN: 14697017     EISSN: 14791811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14697017.2015.1128168     Document Type: Article

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