The first of several volumes analyzing data from a Europe-wide study of the academic professions, this book comprises in-depth literature reviews based on the project s threefold thematic focus on governance, professionalization, and academic careers.[...]
This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years. It emphasizes standardisation and differentiation of academic career paths, impacts of new forms of quality manage[...]
Moving the academic debate on from its current focus on development to a more nuanced sociological perspective, this fresh research is a collaboration between academics in South Korea and Germany that assesses the factors shaping world-class universities as institutional social systems as well as na[...]