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1 online resource |
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Knowledge studies in higher education, 2566-7106 ; volume 6 |
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Knowledge studies in higher education ; v. 6.
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Contents |
Intro; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Linking Globally, Acting Locally: Changes and Challenges; 1.1 Universities and Markets; 1.2 Universities and Hierarchies; 1.3 Academic Outreach Strategies and Ever-Shifting Boundaries; 1.4 Internationalization of Universities and Competing Paradigms; References; Chapter 2: Dilemmas of the Research University: A Case of Glonacal U; 2.1 Centralization vs. Decentralization; 2.2 Localization vs. Internationalization; 2.3 Glonacal U: A Case Study; References; Chapter 3: The Bureaucracy of Change: More Bureaucracy or More Change? |
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3.1 Change: To Centralize or to Decentralize?3.2 Money Matters; 3.3 The Tipping Point; Reference; Chapter 4: "Steering Core": Strategy-Makers amid Competing Agendas; 4.1 Health Sciences; 4.2 Engineering; 4.3 Education; 4.4 Arts and Sciences; 4.5 Outskirts Campus; References; Chapter 5: "Developmental Periphery": Embracing Markets, Defying Hierarchies; 5.1 What About a Stronger Market Orientation?; 5.2 ORUs as Entrepreneurship Seedbeds; 5.3 Networking Centers; 5.4 Teaching Consultancies; 5.5 Freelance Entrepreneurs and Inelastic Institutional Issues; Reference |
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Chapter 6: "Academic Heartland": Epistemic Constraints, Ontological Forces6.1 Academic Leadership; 6.2 Autonomy; 6.3 Noble Missions; 6.4 Communities and Champions; Chapter 7: Synergies and Struggles: Stimuli, Logistics and Costs; 7.1 Neoliberalism and Glonacalization; 7.2 Strategic Global Linkages; 7.2.1 Global Linkage Motivators; 7.2.2 Global Linkage De-Motivators; 7.2.3 The Emergence of Strategic International Partnerships; 7.3 Costs and Benefits of International Partnerships; 7.3.1 Benefits of International Partnerships; 7.3.2 Costs of International Partnerships |
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7.3.3 On the Continuum from Costs to Benefits7.4 Centralization vs. Decentralization of International Partnership-Building; 7.4.1 Centralization Forces of Partnership-Building; 7.4.2 Decentralization Forces of Partnership-Building; 7.4.3 On the Continuum from Decentralization to Centralization; 7.5 Summary; References; Chapter 8: Glonacality of Research Universities; 8.1 Centralization as a Corporate Problem in the Research University; 8.2 The Dichotomy Between the Institutional and Human Agencies; 8.2.1 Systemically Induced Devolution of Powers |
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8.2.2 Structurally Induced Devolution of Powers8.2.3 Characterologically Induced Devolution of Powers; 8.3 Asymmetric Partnerships Rendered Strategic; 8.4 Implications of Unresolved Tensions; 8.5 Concluding Remarks; References; Appendix; Index |
Summary |
This book explains why conflict between the institutional and human agencies is an unavoidable outcome of competing local, national and global agendas at a major research university. It illustrates this by means of a case-study of Glonacal U, a university which belongs to the category of exceptional institutions that excel due to an established organizational culture of academic freedom, research excellence, shared governance, and intellectual leadership. The book shows how such a university may succumb to anxiety when neoliberal managers seek to exploit stakeholder doubts about university sufficiency, relevance, and performance in national and global markets and hierarchies of knowledge products and status goods. As top-down pressure for strategic choices in scientific partnerships increases at the world-class university, grassroots resistance to centralization increases also in order to remind the research university leaders that intellectual work and academic freedom are interdependent and central to building capacities for impactful global science. Productive global linkages are prerogative of academics who take full responsibility for success of project implementation and outcomes in scholarship and practice |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 13, 2019) |
Subject |
Authorship -- Collaboration -- Case studies
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Inter-school cooperation -- Case studies
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Education, Higher -- Research -- Case studies
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Authorship -- Collaboration
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Education, Higher -- Research
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Inter-school cooperation
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9783030231415 |
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3030231410 |
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9783030231408 |
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3030231402 |
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