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The Entrepreneurial Intellectual in the Corporate University

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  • © 2018

Overview

  • Focuses on the need for more decentralized reorganization of the corporatized university, distinguishing between the “corporate university” and the “entrepreneurial university”
  • Explores the contradictions and challenges facing the university as a postindustrial institution, advocating for academic entrepreneurship grounded in innovation
  • Offers provisional strategy that requires small groups of intellectuals to re-imagine themselves and their labor as operating within a market for scientific, educational, and research services
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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This book presents a critical analysis of the corporate university. The author's personal narrative unfolds between the reality of the corporate university and the rhetoric of the entrepreneurial university, which allows the author to reveal how the corporate university is structurally antagonistic to the activities of entrepreneurial intellectuals. The book not only explores the internal contradictions of the corporate university, but the complicity of its bureaucratized intellectuals in reproducing the iron cage of bureaucracy. Drawing on the legacy of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Barrow argues that entrepreneurial intellectuals, whether as individuals or in small groups, must take direct action to improve their own conditions by steering a tenuous course between the market and the state.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, USA

    Clyde W. Barrow

About the author

Clyde W. Barrow is Department Chair and Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA.

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