TY  - JOUR 
AU  - O’Connor, Pat
AU  - Montes López, Estrella
AU  - O’ Hagan, Clare
AU  - Wolffram, Andrea
AU  - Aye, Manuela
AU  - Chizzola, Valentina
AU  - Mich, Ornella
AU  - Apostolov, Georgi
AU  - Topuzova, Irina
AU  - Sağlamer, Gulsun
AU  - Tan, Mine G.
AU  - Çağlayan, Hulya
PY  - 2020
SN  - 1750-8487
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10366/169942
AB  - [EN] Excellence has become a ‘hoorah’ word which is widely used in higher education institutions to legitimate practices related to the recruitment/progression of staff. It can be seen as reflecting an institutionalised belief that such evaluative...
LA  - eng
PB  - Taylor and Francis
KW  - Candidates
KW  - Evaluators
KW  - Excellence
KW  - Local fit
KW  - Higher education
KW  - Masculinist
KW  - Micro-policical practices
KW  - Rationalising myth
KW  - Relational
KW  - Informal power
TI  - Micro-political practices in higher education: a challenge to excellence as a rationalising myth?
DO  - 10.1080/17508487.2017.1381629
T2  - Critical Studies in Education
VL  - 61
M2  - 195
ER  -