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Higher education governance as language games: a Wittgensteinian case study of the breakdown of governance at the London School of Economics 2004–2011
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This paper calls for a more detailed study of social practices in the analysis of governance failures. Using the Woolf report on the breakdown of governance at the London School of Economics as a case study and Wittgenstein’s notion of language games as an analytic lens, the author argues that widely used institutional and structural theories of governance are necessary but not sufficient to explain how governance works and why it fails. It is also necessary to understand, through a detailed ...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Higher Education Quarterly Journal website
- Volume:
- 69
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 193-213
- Publication date:
- 2015-01-01
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- EISSN:
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1468-2273
- ISSN:
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0951-5224
- Source identifiers:
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505552
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pubs:505552
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- pubs:505552
- Deposit date:
- 2015-03-11
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- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Copyright date:
- 2015
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- Copyright © 2015 John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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