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Abstract:
This timely and important book provides a critical analysis of the changes and challenges that currently affect European universities. Using both theoretical contributions and applied case studies, leading experts argue that universities as institutions are in need of change – although the routes that the process may take are heterogeneous.
The authors debate whether the reform of universities suffers from the undue influence of generalisations that do not stand up to scrutiny. It is simply too narrow to focus on strategies such as imitating a ‘university model’, hoping that best practices will solve the inefficiencies of the organisation as a whole, or relying on the presence of few external individuals on the universities’ board to save the difficult relationships between the university and the surrounding economy and society. These ideas ignore the diversity of universities geographically and historically. Above all, they underestimate the power that such diversity holds in making universities survive across centuries.
Researchers with an interest in university reform will appreciate this important contribution to the debate, whilst policymakers and university administrators will find this book invaluable in understanding the changes and problems facing European universities and gaining insights on possible solutions.
Contents:
Foreword: University Reform – A Prerequisite for Success of Knowledge-based Economy? - Kari Raivio
Introduction: Found In Translation? The Persistence of the University as Institution - Carmelo Mazza, Paolo Quattrone & Angelo Riccaboni
Part I: Issues
1. University Reforms: The Tension between Form and Substance - Nigel Thrift
2. Minerva and the Media: Universities Protecting and Promoting Themselves - Lars Engwall
3. PhD Education: Challenges and Opportunities of Europeanization - Marie-Laure Djelic
4. The Role of Business Schools in the Process of University Reform - Anthony G. Hopwood
Part II: Models
5. Bologna and Business Education: Far from a Model, Just a Process for a While... - Nicolas Mottis
6. New Modes of Governance: The Re-Regulation of European Higher Education and Research - Tina Hedmo & Linda Wedlin
7. Combining the Production and the Valorization of Academic Research: A Qualitative Investigation of Enacted Mechanisms - Julie Callaert, Bart Van Looy, Dominique Foray & Koenraad Debackere
8. The University is not an Institute of Technology - Gilles Van Wijk
Part III: Cases
(i) Governance and Performance Measurement
9. Australian Higher Education Transformed: From Central Coordination to Control - Suzanne Ryan, James Guthrie & Ruth Neumann
10. Managing Modernization: Introducing Performance Management in British Universities - Tom Keenoy & Michael I. Reed
11. Higher Education Governance, Leadership and Management Reform: Systemic Corporate Governance Reform at City University, London - Ian Creagh & Richard Verrall
12. The Structure and Significance of the Italian Research Assessment Exercise (VTR) - Eliana Minelli, Gianfranco Rebora & Matteo Turri
(ii) Innovation and Regional Economies
13. Education and Training for Innovation in SMEs: A Tale of Exploitation - Stuart Macdonald, Pat Anderson & Dimitris Assimakopoulos
14. European and Regional Disparities in Human Capital: The Case of Italy - Paolo Emilio Signorini
Afterword - Pasquale Gagliardi
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