Accounting for Excellence: Transforming Universities into Organizational Actors

International and Development Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 43-58

  Ramirez, Francisco O ^a  

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Author keywords

Annual Report; International Ranking; Organizational Actor; Organizational Ideal; Social Usefulness

Indexed keywords

EID: 85145033683     PISSN: 27316424     EISSN: 27316432     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230106130_4     Document Type: Chapter

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