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  • Universities and the Production of Elites

    Discourses, Policies, and Strategies of Excellence and Stratification in Higher Education

    Edited by Roland Bloch, Alexander Mitterle, Catherine Paradeise, Tobias Peter ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores how universities as organizations influence and construct the production of academic elites and elitist institutions. It analyzes the role played by the reorganization of higher education (HE) institutions, stimulated by new performance-based narratives aimed at building attractiveness towards stakeholders such as governments, prospective employers, academics, and students. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting

    Edited by Matthias Kipping, Timothy Clark ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Management consultants of various kinds play an important role in the world of business, and within other types of organization. The Oxford Handbook on Management Consulting is a comprehensive overview of thinking and research on management consultancy with contributions from leading international scholars. The first section provides an account of the historical developments in management ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism

    Edited by Mike Dent, Jean-Louis Denis, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Ellen Kuhlmann ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
    The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism is a state-of-the-art reference work which maps out the current developments and debates around the sociology of the professions, and how they relate to management and organizations.Supported by an international contributor team specializing in the disciplines of organizational studies and sociology, the collection provides extensive ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Entrepreneurial Self

    Fabricating a New Type of Subject

    by Ulrich Bröckling ...
    "This is a book about who we are today, and how we have become who we are. It is about the engineers of the modern soul, the entrepreneurial self. It is essential reading for all those who care about the incessant demands placed on us to become more than we are, to become entrepreneurs of our selves, to maximise and optimise our capacities in ways that align personal identity and political ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Strategic Communication, Social Media and Democracy

    The challenge of the digital naturals

    Edited by W. Timothy Coombs, Jesper Falkheimer, Mats Heide, Philip Young ...
    Series series Routledge New Directions in PR & Communication Research
    Today almost everyone in the developed world spends time online and anyone involved in strategic communication must think digitally. The magnitude of change may be up for debate but the trend is unstoppable, dramatically reconfiguring business models, organisational structures and even the practice of democracy.Strategic Communication, Social Media and Democracy provides a wholly new framework for ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Rethinking the Law School

    Education, Research, Outreach and Governance

    by Carel Stolker ...
    Law, by its very nature, tends to think locally, not globally. This book has a broader scope in terms of the range of nations and offers a succinct journey through law schools on different continents and subject matters. It covers education, research, impact and societal outreach, and governance. It illustrates that law schools throughout the world have much in common in terms of values, duties, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Relational Economy

    Geographies of Knowing and Learning

    by Harald Bathelt, Johannes Glückler ...
    How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place? What are the new geographies emerging from the need to create, access, and share knowledge, and sustain competitiveness? In what ways are local clusters and global exchange relations intertwined and co-constituted? What are the impacts of global changes in technology, demand, ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Europe’s New Scientific Elite

    Social Mechanisms of Science in the European Research Area

    by Barbara Hoenig ...
    Series series Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge
    Winner of the Harald Kaufmann Prize for Senior Researchers, 2018This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area. Based on a study of the European Research Council (ERC), the author investigates profound structural change in the social organization of science, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Governing Compact Cities

    How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport

    by Philipp Rode ...
    Series series Cities series
    Governing Compact Cities investigates how governments and other critical actors organise to enable compact urban growth, combining higher urban densities, mixed use and urban design quality with more walkable and public transport-oriented urban development. Philipp Rode draws on empirical evidence from London and Berlin to examine how urban policymakers, professionals and stakeholders have worked ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Civil Society, the Third Sector and Social Enterprise

    Governance and Democracy

    Edited by Jean-Louis Laville, Philippe Eynaud, Dennis Young ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    If the twentieth century was only focused on the complementarity and the opposition of market and state, the twenty-first century has now to deal with the prominence of the third sector, the emergence of social enterprises and other solidarity hybrid forms. The concept of civil society organisations (CSOs) spans this diversity and addresses this new complexity.The first part of the book highlights ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Vocational Education

    International Approaches, Developments and Systems

    Edited by Linda Clarke, Christopher Winch ...
    Vocational education and training (VET) have a key role to play in raising skill levels and improving a society’s productivity. In this important new book, a team of international experts argue that too often national VET policy has been formulated in ignorance of historical and political developments in other countries and without proper consideration of the social objectives that it might help ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Managing the Digital University

    Paradigms, Leadership, and Organization

    by Łukasz Sułkowski ...
    Series series Routledge Open Business and Economics
    The reflection on university management is based on the question about the shape of universities of the future. Civic, responsible, sustainable, virtual, digital, and many other universities can be mentioned among the concepts present in the literature. All these names describe an important distinctive feature of a university, which will gain more and more importance in the future. However, given ... Read more

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