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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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

    $175.49 USD

  • 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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    Edited by Katariina Holma, Tiina Kontinen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book addresses the compelling questions concerning the ideals of African citizenship, the processes of learning to fulfill these ideals, and possibilities of education in fostering citizenship. Rather than advocating for one particular framework, the authors demonstrate the continuously contested nature of the concept of citizenship as both theoretically discussed by philosophers and ... Read more

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  • Youth Transitions among Descendants of Turkish Immigrants in Amsterdam and Strasbourg:

    A Generation in Transition

    by Elif Keskiner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book maps the youth transitions of descendants of migrants from Turkey living in Amsterdam and Strasbourg, through a comparative mixed-methods research design. As such, it is of interest to discussions in youth sociology, social mobility and second-generation research. The book follows transition trajectories of the second-generation, from school to activity or inactivity in the ... Read more

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  • Tales of Research Misconduct

    A Lacanian Diagnostics of Integrity Challenges in Science Novels

    by Hub Zwart ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This monograph contributes to the scientific misconduct debate from an oblique perspective, by analysing seven novels devoted to this issue, namely: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (1925), The affair by C.P. Snow (1960), Cantor’s Dilemma by Carl Djerassi (1989), Perlmann’s Silence by Pascal Mercier (1995), Intuition by Allegra Goodman (2006), Solar by Ian McEwan (2010) and Derailment by Diederik ... Read more

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  • Modelling our Changing World

    by Jennifer L. Castle, David F. Hendry ...
    Series series Palgrave Texts in Econometrics
    This open access book focuses on the concepts, tools and techniques needed to successfully model ever-changing time-series data. It emphasizes the need for general models to account for the complexities of the modern world and how these can be applied to a range of issues facing Earth, from modelling volcanic eruptions, carbon dioxide emissions and global temperatures, to modelling unemployment ... Read more

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  • 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