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Management Fads in
Higher Education:
Where They Come From, What They Do, Why
They Fail
(The Jossey-Bass Higher
and Adult Education Series)
Robert
Birnbaum (University of
Maryland, College Park)
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, LB2341 B49, 2000
2005-07-18
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Preface
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The Author xxi
Part I: Developing Academic Management Fads
1. Seeking the grail: The never-ending quest 3
2. We;re from the governement, and we're here to help 33
3. Survival in a changing environment 63
4. Higher education as a commodity 91
Part II: Understanding Academic Management Fads
5. The life cycle of academic management fads 125
6. Organizations and fads 143
7. Managers ans fads 169
Part III: Working with Academic Management Fads
8. The legacy of fads 193
9. Managing fads 215
References 243
Name Index 267
Subject Index 273
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