Comparative perspectives on universities

• Other Authors: Kalleberg, Ragnvald
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Stamford, Conn : JAI Press, 2005.
• Series: Comparative social research ; v. 19.
• Subjects: Clark, Burton R. > Places of inquiry.; Universities and colleges > Cross-cultural studies.; Universities and colleges > Administration > Cross-cultural studies.; Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > Cross-cultural studies.; Universities and colleges > Research.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781849500593; 1849500592; 9780762306794; 0762306793
• ISSN: 0195-6310 ;
• DOI: 10.1016/S0195-6310(2000)19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 281 p.)

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Ragnvald Kalleberg
• Learning academic labor / Patricia J. Gumport
• Early and late adoption of knowledge products: strategic or institutional behavior? / Jeroen Huisman and Eric Beerkens
• The specificity of American higher education / Craig Calhoun
• Analyzing organizational change in higher education / ôse Gornitzka and Peter Maassen
• Policy regimes and policy change: comparing higher education reform policy in three European countries / Ivar Bleiklie
• Governmental steering and innovations in university curricula / Ineke Jenniskens
• Pushing universities to market their products: redefinitions of academic activities in Finland / Marja Häyrinen-Alestalo, Karoliina Snell, and Ulla Peltola
• Review symposium on Burton Clark's Places of inquiry
• Places of inquiry: research and advanced education in modern universities / Burton R. Clark
• Universities: complex bundle institutions and the projects of enlightenment / Ragnvald Kalleberg
• Research and the making of frames / Guy Neave
• Comments on the review essays by Ragnvald Kalleberg and Guy Neave / Burton R. Clark.