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1 online resource (317 pages) |
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Routledge Advances in Sociology |
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Routledge advances in sociology.
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| Contents |
Cover; Academic Capitalism; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Struggling for Excellence in the Academic Field; 1 The New Rules of Science: From Gift Exchange to the Shanghai World League of Universities; 2 The Entrepreneurial University: From Homo Academicus to Homo Oeconomicus; 3 Constructing Excellence by Evaluation; 4 The Monopoly Mechanism in Science; 5 From Competition to Stratification: Universities in the Struggle for Funds, Staff, and Students |
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6 The Allocation of Funds and International Fellows among Universities: Publication Performance versus Accumulated Capital7 The Allocation of Funds and Reputation among Departments: Publication Performance versus Accumulated Capital; Conclusion: Universities in the Global Struggle for Excellence; Appendix; References; Index |
| Summary |
This book investigates the intensifying struggle for excellence between universities in a globalized academic field. The rise of the entrepreneurial university and academic capitalism are superimposing themselves on the competition of scientists for progress of knowledge and recognition by the scientific community. The result is a sharpening institutional stratification of the field. This stratification is produced and continuously reproduced by the intensified struggle for funds with the shrinking of block grants and the growing significance of competitive funding, as well as the increasing i |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Universities and colleges -- Economic aspects
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Educational change.
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Education, Higher.
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higher education.
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Education, Higher
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Educational change
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Universities and colleges -- Economic aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135036065 |
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1135036063 |
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