New public management and research productivity – a precarious state of affairs of academic work in the Netherlands

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 828-846

  Leišytė, Liudvika ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dutch higher education; gender in academia; managerial university; performance pressure; research productivity; teaching research nexus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988418761     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2016.1147721     Document Type: Article

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