Universities as Agencies
Reputation and Professionalization
Published on 25. December 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIV, 278 pages
978-3-030-06498-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book discusses how modern universities increasingly use reputation management in relation to internal and external challenges. Universities are increasingly characterized by social embeddedness, relating to many external stakeholders and international markets of students, researchers and research projects. This implies global pressure to standardize, formalize and rationalize their internal organization. The book uses data from China, Norway and US to show how reputation symbols are used and balanced, based on their web pages. Further, it uses extensive data from US universities to show how their internal organization structure is developing over time, related to three types of units/positions - development, diversity and legal offices and roles.
Reviews / Votes
"Compared to other studies on reputation management and branding in higher education, this book adds to our understanding by providing more empirical examples showing the complexity of these phenomena in contemporary HEIs." (Jelle Mampaey, European Journal of Higher Education, August 02, 2019)More details
Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
9 s/w Abbildungen
XIV, 278 p. 9 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
381 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-030-06498-3 (9783030064983)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-92713-8
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Tom Christensen | Åse Gornitzka | Francisco O. Ramirez
Universities as Agencies
Reputation and Professionalization
Book
08/2018
Palgrave Macmillan
€128.39
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Persons
Tom Christensen is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.
Åse Gornitzka is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.
Francisco O. Ramirez is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology, Stanford University, USA.
Åse Gornitzka is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.
Francisco O. Ramirez is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology, Stanford University, USA.
Content
1. Reputation Management, Social Embeddedness and Rationalization of Universities. T.Christensen, Å.Gornitzka and F.O.Ramirez.- 2. Reputation Management in Nordic Universities - Profiles and Development over Time. T.Christensen and Å.Gornitzka.- 3. Reputation Management Revisited: U.S.Universities Presenting Themselves Online. S.G.Gavriela and F.O.Ramirez.- 4. Reputation profile of Chinese universities - converging with global trends or national characteristics? M.Liang and T.Christensen.- 5. Social Science Disciplines in Complex Development Contexts - the Professionalization Dimension of Reputation Management. T.Christensen and L.Klemsdal.- 6. What We Stand for: Reputation Platforms in Scandinavian Higher Education. A.Wæraas and H.L. Sataøen.- 7. Marketing the American University: Professionalization of Development in Entrepreneurial Universities. N.A.Skinner and F.O.Ramirez.- 8. Enacting Diversity inAmerican Higher Education. N.Kwak, S.G.Gavriela and F.O.Ramirez.- 9. The Legal Rationalization of American Higher Education. J.Furuta and F.O.Ramirez.- 10. Socially embedded universities and the search for meaning B.Stensaker.