Quality as Fashion: Exploring the Translation of a Management Idea into Higher Education

Higher Education Dynamics

Volumn 20, Issue , 2007, Pages 99-118

  Stensaker, Bjørn ^a  

^a NORDIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN INNOVATION   (Norway)

Author keywords

High Education; High Education Institution; High Education System; Quality Assurance; Total Quality Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103927676     PISSN: 15710378     EISSN: 22151923     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6012-0_4     Document Type: Chapter

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