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  • Towards a Comparative Institutionalism

    Forms, Dynamics and Logics Across the Organizational Fields of Health Care and Higher Education

    by Michael Lounsbury ...
    Series Book 45 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
    The book examines ongoing dynamics within the organizational fields of health and higher education, with a focus on collective (public universities and hospitals) and individual (professionals) actors, structures, processes and institutional logics. The fact that universities and hospitals share a number of important characteristics, both being hybrid organizations, professional bureaucracies, and ... Read more

    $175.99 USD

  • Mergers in Higher Education

    The Experience from Northern Europe

    Edited by Rómulo Pinheiro, Lars Geschwind, Timo Aarrevaara ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book addresses the critical knowledge gaps of mergers involving higher education institutions. It is based on a comparative research project (spring 2013-spring 2015) investigating the phenomena of mergers involving higher education institutions across the Nordic countries – Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The study involved close to 30 scholars from the region, and aimed at shedding ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Digital Transformations in Nordic Higher Education

    Edited by Rómulo Pinheiro, Cathrine Edelhard Tømte, Linda Barman, Lise Degn, Lars Geschwind ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book expands the scholarly and policy debates surrounding digital transformation in higher education. The authors adopt a pluralistic conceptual framework which uncovers three analytical elements – contexts, mediations, and type of effects – for unpacking empirical manifestations. The publicly funded higher education systems in Nordic countries provide solid empirical insights ... Read more

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  • Peer review in an Era of Evaluation

    Understanding the Practice of Gatekeeping in Academia

    Edited by Eva Forsberg, Lars Geschwind, Sara Levander, Wieland Wermke ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access volume explores peer review in the scientific community and academia. While peer review is as old as modern science itself, recent changes in the evaluation culture of higher education systems have increased the use of peer review, and its purposes, forms and functions have become more diversified. This book put together a comprehensive set of conceptual and empirical ... Read more

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  • Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education

    A Comparative Account from the Nordic Countries

    Edited by Rómulo Pinheiro, Lars Geschwind, Hanne Foss Hansen, Kirsi Pulkkinen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity of system-wide (macro) and organisational (meso and micro) dimensions, namely: reform or policy initiatives; drivers, aims, instruments and actors; structural changes within ... Read more

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  • The Responsible University

    Exploring the Nordic Context and Beyond

    Edited by Mads P. Sørensen, Lars Geschwind, Jouni Kekäle, Rómulo Pinheiro ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores how the notion of the responsible university manifests itself at various levels within Nordic higher education. As the impetus of the knowledge society has catapulted the higher education sector to the forefront of policy agendas, universities and other types of higher education institutions face increasing scrutiny, assessment and accountability. This book examines this ... Read more

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  • Technical Universities

    Past, present and future

    Edited by Lars Geschwind, Anders Broström, Katarina Larsen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This Open Access book analyses the past, present and future of the technical university as a single faculty independent institution. The point of departure is a view of changing academic realities, through which the identity as a technical university is challenged and reconstituted. More specifically, the book connects the development of technical universities to changes in the structure and ... Read more

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  • Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education

    The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce

    Edited by Celia Whitchurch, George Gordon ...
    Series series International Studies in Higher Education
    The latest volume in the Routledge International Studies in Higher Education Series, Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education: The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce, reviews the implications of new forms of academic and professional identity, which have emerged largely as a result of a broadening disciplinary base and increasing permeability between higher education and ... Read more

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  • The Rural Enterprise Economy

    Edited by Birgit Leick, Susanne Gretzinger, Teemu Makkonen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Economics of Business and Industry
    Enterprises located in rural regions face various challenges in the globalised and digitised world. This book offers comprehensive answers to the question of what makes up the rural enterprise economy in the contemporary business world. It addresses the competitiveness and viability, strategic management and strategic change, and marketing issues for both incumbent and start-up companies in rural ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Network Theory in the Public Sector

    Building New Theoretical Frameworks

    Edited by Robyn Keast, Myrna P Mandell, Robert Agranoff ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Networks have been described in terms of metaphors, governance arrangements and structural or institutional arrangements. These different perspectives of networks come out of a variety of disciplines, including political science, public administration, urban affairs, social welfare, public management and organizational/sociological research. This wealth of research, while contributing to a deeper ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Multi-Level Governance in Universities

    Strategy, Structure, Control

    Edited by Jetta Frost, Fabian Hattke, Markus Reihlen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Governing universities is a multi-level as well as a highly paradoxical endeavor. The featured studies in this book examine critically the multifaceted repercussions of changing governance logics and show how contradictory demands for scholarly peer control, market responsiveness, public policy control, and democratization create governance paradoxes. While a large body of academic literature has ... Read more

    $134.09 USD