
The University under Pressure
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Catherine Paradeise, Universite Paris-Est-Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Societes, France
Content
PART I: THE UNIVERSITY UNDER PRESSURE AN OVERVIEW
The Changing Ecology of U.S. Higher Education: An Organization Field Perspective - W. Richard Scott and Manuelito Biag
Nested Organizational Fields: Isomorphism and Differentiation among European Universities - Otto Huther and Georg Krucken
PART II: PRESSURES AT THE FIELD LEVEL
The Emergent Action Field of Metrics: From Rankings to Altmetrics - Catherine Paradeise and Ghislaine Filliatreau
Student Loans as a Pressure on U.S. Higher Education - Elizabeth Popp Berman and 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 and Robert Osley-Thomas
PART III: IMPACTS ON THE ORGANIZATION
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 and James A. Evans
Universities, Academic Careers, and the Valorization of 'Shiny Things' - Joseph C. Hermanowicz
Going Interdisciplinary in French and US Universities: Organizational Change and University Policies - Severine Louvel
Draw Me a University: Organizational Design Processes in University Mergers - Julien Barrier and Christine Musselin
Selling Students: The Rise of Corporate Partnership Programs in University Career Centers - Daniel Davis and Amy Binder
PART IV: WHAT FUTURE FOR THE UNIVERSITY?
UC Berkeley's Adaptations to the Crisis of Public Higher Education in the U.S.: Privatization? Commercialization? or Hybridization? - George W. Breslauer
This Time It Really May Be Different - Irwin Feller
Two Continents Divided by the Same Trends? Reflections about Marketization, Competition, and Inequality in European Higher Education - Pedro Teixeira
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The University Under Pressure.
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Research in the sociology of organizations.
The University Under Pressure.
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