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To: JohnM who wrote (78873)3/2/2003 11:34:11 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Not any more than any other large organization and, most likely, a great deal less. Academics are more akin, as I've argued here in the past, to institutionally based entrepeneurs, organizing their work on their own, answering to their own (disciplanary) norms, than simply creatures of an organization. So similarity-difference.

"institutionally based entrepeneurs" is a contradiction in terms, John. A real entrepeneur has a great deal of money and time tied up in the business, and he can go broke brutally fast. A tenured professor has an almost totally secury salary. If he fails, how does he 'go broke'? How does a failing department 'go broke'? The feedback systems are very different.
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