The University under Pressure.

Universities are under pressure. All over the world, their resource environment is evolving, demands for accountability have increased, and competition has become more intense. At the same time, emerging countries have become more important in the global system, demographic shifts are changing educa...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Elizabeth Popp Berman, Catherine Paradeise
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2016.
Series:Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 46
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the university under pressure
  • Elizabeth Popp Berman,Catherine Paradeise
  • The changing ecology of U.S. higher education: an organization field perspective
  • W. Richard Scott,Manuelito Biag
  • Nested organizational fields: isomorphism and differentiation among European universities
  • Otto Hu<U+0308>ther,Georg Kru<U+0308>cken
  • The emergent action field of metrics: from rankings to altmetrics
  • Catherine Paradeise,Ghislaine Filliatreau
  • Student loans as a pressure on U.S. higher education
  • Elizabeth Popp Berman,Abby Stivers
  • Mapping the network of North American colleges and universities: a new approach to empirically derived classifications
  • Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur
  • Codes of commerce and codes of citizenship: a historical look at students as consumers within US higher education
  • Daniel Lee Kleinman,Robert Osley-Thomas
  • The changing finances of public higher education organizations: diversity, change, and discontinuity
  • Sondra N. Barringer
  • Reconciling the small effect of rankings on university performance with the transformational cost of conformity
  • Craig Tutterow,James A. Evans
  • Universities, academic careers, and the valorization of "shiny things"
  • Joseph C. Hermanowicz