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A mania for assessment: How an audit culture undermines the purpose of universities (2017)
Book Chapter
Tourish, D., Craig, R., & Amernic, J. (2017). A mania for assessment: How an audit culture undermines the purpose of universities. In T. Huzzard, M. Benner, & D. Kärreman (Eds.), The Corporatization of the Business School: Minerva Meets the Market (34-55). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315640594

This chapter highlights the potential of audit-based university performance management systems to render much academic effort less effective than it otherwise would be. It challenges the university audit culture, demonstrate how such a culture is sti... Read More about A mania for assessment: How an audit culture undermines the purpose of universities.

Exploring signs of hubris in CEO language (2014)
Book Chapter
Craig, R., & Amernic, J. (2014). Exploring signs of hubris in CEO language. In R. P. Hart (Ed.), Communication and Language Analysis in the Corporate World (69-88). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4999-6.ch005

This chapter focuses on the potential for DICTION to identify inaptly hubristic language of Chief Executive Officers. CEO hubris is examined as a syndrome possessing identifiable symptoms that have possible links to CEO language and DICTION measures.... Read More about Exploring signs of hubris in CEO language.