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Science Evaluation and Status Creation
Peter Edlund
In this insightful book, Peter Edlund takes a status-based approach to theorizing the development of the European Research Council (ERC). Drawing upon rich empirical material, the author vividly details how the ERC was transformed from a...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Entrepreneurial Scholar
Dimo Dimov
Dimo Dimov’s innovative book examines what it means to be an entrepreneurial scholar, drawing on a range of philosophical ideas to investigate the study of entrepreneurs. Dimov makes the case for entrepreneurial scholarship to become mor...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Theorizing in Organization Studies
Anne Vorre Hansen, Sabine Madsen
While many books provide guidance to the construction of theory, the process of theorizing itself has been addressed far less. The aim of this book is to encourage researchers to reflect upon their subjective theorizing practices and to ...eBook:Find out more$26.36
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Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Edited by Kathy Daniels, Caroline Elliott, Simon Finley, Colin Chapman
There is often little guidance available on how to teach in universities, despite there being increasing pressure to raise teaching standards, as well as no official requirement for academics to have any specific teaching qualification i...eBook:Find out more$42.36
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Competitive Accountability in Academic Life
Richard Watermeyer
This book considers how a culture of ‘competitive accountability’ in UK higher education produces multiple tensions, contradictions and paradoxes that are destabilizing and deleterious to the work and identities of academics as research ...eBook:Find out more$31.16
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Higher Education and the Future of Graduate Employability
Edited by Ruth Bridgstock, Neil Tippett
This book challenges the dominant ‘employability skills’ discourse by exploring socially connected and networked perspectives to learning and teaching in higher education. Both learning and career development happen naturally and optimal...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Higher Education in the Digital Age
Edited by Annika Zorn, Jeff Haywood, Jean-Michel Glachant
The European higher education sector is moving online, but to what extent? Are the digital disruptions seen in other sectors of relevance for both academics and management in higher education? How far are we from fully seizing the opport...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Entrepreneurial Universities
Edited by João J. Ferreira, Alain Fayolle, Vanessa Ratten, Mário Raposo
With an increasing focus on the knowledge and service economies, it is important to understand the role that entrepreneurial universities play through collaboration in policy and, in turn, the impact they have on policy. The authors eval...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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How to be an Academic Superhero
Iain Hay
In universities across the world, academics struggle to establish and sustain their careers while satisfying intensifying institutional demands. Drawing from the author’s decades of observation and experience in academia, this exceptiona...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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The Market Oriented University
John A. Davis, Mark A. Farrell
The next decade will be transformative for the higher education sector. Government funding is decreasing. Through their marketing activities universities have created the ‘student consumer.’ The student consumer is prepared to shop aroun...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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The University and the Economy
Aldo Geuna, Federica Rossi
This book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the many ways in which universities contribute to economic development and growth. It demonstrates the causal interactions between universities’ activities and economic outcome...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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Managing Academics
Richard Philip Winter
Managing Academics contrasts three alternative perspectives of managing (professionalism, quality of worklife, prosocial identity) with the dominant perspective of managerialism in higher education institutions. The intention of the cont...eBook:Find out more$40.00