European Universities in Transition

Edited by Carmelo Mazza, Paolo Quattrone and Angelo Riccaboni

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This timely and important book provides a critical analysis of the changes and challenges that currently affect European universities. Using both theoretical contributions and applied case studies, leading experts argue that universities as institutions are in need of change – although the routes that the process may take are heterogeneous.

Keywords: Business and Management; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
ISBN: 9781847207487
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 University Reforms: The Tension between Form and Substance

Nigel Thrift

Ch 2 Minerva and the Media: Universities Protecting and Promoting Themselves

Lars Engwall

Ch 3 PhD Education – Challenges and Opportunities of Europeanization

Marie-Laure Djelic

Ch 4 The Role of Business Schools in the Process of University Reform

Anthony G. Hopwood

Ch 5 Bologna and Business Education: Far from a Model, Just a Process for a While…

Nicolas Mottis

Ch 6 New Modes of Governance: The Re-Regulation of European Higher Education and Research

Tina Hedmo and Linda Wedlin

Ch 7 Combining the Production and the Valorization of Academic Research: A Qualitative Investigation of Enacted Mechanisms

Julie Callaert, Bart Van Looy, Dominique Foray and Koenraad Debackere

Ch 8 The University is not an Institute of Technology

Gilles Van Wijk

Ch 9 Australian Higher Education Transformed: From Central Coordination to Control

Suzanne Ryan, James Guthrie and Ruth Neumann

Ch 10 Managing Modernization: Introducing Performance Management in British Universities

Tom Keenoy and Michael I. Reed

Ch 11 Higher Education Governance, Leadership and Management Reform: Systemic Corporate Governance Reform at City University, London

Ian Creagh and Richard Verrall

Ch 12 The Structure and Significance of the Italian Research Assessment Exercise (VTR)

Eliana Minelli, Gianfranco Rebora and Matteo Turri

Ch 13 Education and Training for Innovation in SMEs: A Tale of Exploitation

Stuart Macdonald, Pat Anderson and Dimitris Assimakopoulos

Ch 14 European and Regional Disparities in Human Capital: The Case of Italy

Paolo Emilio Signorini

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