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It has been argued that academic organizations are organized anarchies with ambiguous goal functions and uncertain technologies. Academia cannot evaluate itself because its dynamics is the “garbage-can” process. The counter-argument is that rational academic man(woman) is a substitute for organizational foolishness. The organizational behavior of academic institutions must be interpreted in terms of the logic of the academic profession.
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Lane, JE. Academic profession in academic organization. High Educ 14, 241–268 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00136108
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