The Concept of Culture and Higher Education
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Introduction Since the early 1960s the concept of culture has gradually gained a prominent place in a number of social sciences, like organization theory and management studies, other than its parent discipline, anthropology. Also in studies on higher education the concept of culture has been used to explain, for example, the effectiveness of universities and colleges However, as with many prominent concepts introduced before in this field (for example, quality, effectiveness and strategy), culture is applied without a dear-cut and undisputed definition, leading to a lot of confusion as well as disagreement on the validity of its
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