Does performance-based funding work?: Reviewing the impacts of performance-based funding on higher education institutions

Positioning Higher Education Institutions: From Here to There

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 215-226

  Kivistö, Jussi ^a   Kohtamäki, Vuokko ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

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EID: 85006716837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6300-660-6_12     Document Type: Chapter

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