How Colleges Work

The Cybernetics of Academic Organization and Leadership

von Robert Birnbaum

288 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

"One of the best theoretical and applied analyses of universityacademic organization and leadership in print. This book issignificant because it is not only thoughtfully developed and basedon careful reading of the extensive literature on leadership andgovernance, but it is also deliberately intended to enable theauthor to bridge the gap between theories of organization, on onehand, and practical application, on the other." --Journal of Higher Education