Is the Reference Model Replicable?

Catherine Paradeise and Jean-Claude Thoenig
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Catherine Paradeise: University Paris-Est
Jean-Claude Thoenig: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University Paris-Dauphine

Chapter 8 in In Search of Academic Quality, 2015, pp 192-218 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract At first sight, the drift for excellence that emerged in the late 2000s has induced massive snowball effects and is from now on involving any higher education and research institution worldwide. It has changed fundamentally the landscape inside the academic community, legitimized new ways of policy-making, and gained the attention of public opinion and media. In a way, it has created a sort of iron cage, this concept having been used to describe the emergence and triumph of bureaucracy in the 1800s and early 1900s as a rational efficiency-based theory and organizational structure to administer public agencies (Weber 1949). Today, not to join the bandwagon effect of excellence may be considered as an expression of stubborn radical criticism-whether conservative or leftist-or as a symptom of irrational management of knowledge and education institutions.

Keywords: High Education; Faculty Member; Academic Quality; Executive Leadership; Quality Regime (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137298294_9

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