Management and Universities

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 ...

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Paperback (2020)

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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...

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Paperback (2020)

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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 ...

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Paperback (2020)

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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...

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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...

Hardback (2018)

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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...

Hardback (2018)

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Research Handbook on Quality, Performance and Accountability in Higher Education

Edited by Ellen Hazelkorn, Hamish Coates, Alexander C. McCormick

As higher education becomes a key determinant for economic competitiveness, institutions face increasing pressure to demonstrate their fitness to meet the needs of society and individuals. Blending innovative research with richly context...

Hardback (2018)

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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...

Paperback (2017)

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Hardback (2016)

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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...

Paperback (2017)

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Hardback (May 2015)

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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...

Hardback (2017)

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The Civic University

Edited by John Goddard, Ellen Hazelkorn, Louise Kempton, Paul Vallance

This innovative book addresses the leadership and management challenges of maximising the contribution of universities to civil society both locally and globally. It does this by developing a model of the civic university as an academic ...

Hardback (2016)

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