Audit-market intermediaries: doing institutional work in British research-intensive universities

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2019, Pages 1290-1301

  Enders, Jürgen ^a   Naidoo, Rajani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit market intermediaries; institutional theory; institutional work; legitimacy and power; situated professionals

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041927458     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2018.1436536     Document Type: Article

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