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Exploding the Myth

Literary Analysis of Universities’ Strategic Plans

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Positioning Higher Education Institutions

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The region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is a political construct which refers to all the Eastern bloc countries west of the former Soviet Union, the independent states in former Yugoslavia, the three Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), and sometimes Austria. Over the past twenty-five years, all the countries in the region except Austria underwent transition from communist rule to democracy and from state-rule economy to liberal market economy. The former Yugoslav Republics became independent countries, some after a period of ethnic conflicts and war.

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  1. Strategy, Planning and Change, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Sheffield, UK

    Tony Strike

  2. Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sheffield, UK

    Jacqueline Labbe

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  1. Ulster University, UK

    Rosalind M. O. Pritchard

  2. Danube University Krems, Austria

    Attila Pausits

  3. Birmingham City University, UK

    James Williams

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Strike, T., Labbe, J. (2016). Exploding the Myth. In: Pritchard, R.M.O., Pausits, A., Williams, J. (eds) Positioning Higher Education Institutions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-660-6_7

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