Academic units in a complex, changing world [electronic resource] : adaptation and resistance / Deanna de Zilwa.

This book uses case studies of academic units from Australian public universities to explore the reasons why those units respond in different ways to similar contemporary challenges. The 'academic units' - departments, schools and faculties - in the world's public universities may be...

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Main Author: De Zilwa, Deanna
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Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2010.
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