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The Transformation of University Institutional and Organizational Boundaries

Organizational Boundaries

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Emanuela Reale

    1. IRCrES, Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth of National Research Council, Rome, Italy

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  2. Emilia Primeri

    1. IRCrES, Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth of National Research Council, Rome, Italy

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  • This book looks at the emerging issue of boundaries crossing in higher education studies
  • It offers multiple views of changes in the function, objectives and scope of higher education and research institutions
  • The authors are from different fields of studies and expertise

Part of the book series: Higher Education Research in the 21st Century (CHER)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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    1. Shifting Institutional Boundaries

      • Alice Lam
      Pages 1-28

    2. What it Means to Become a Flagship University1

      • John Aubrey Douglass
      Pages 29-39

  3. Transforming Universities Institutional and Organizational Boundaries: Changing Functions, Objectives, and Scope of Higher Education and Research Institutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Agencification Challenges in Higher Education Quality Assurance

      • Maarja Beerkens
      Pages 43-61

    3. Universities’ Third Mission Activities

      • Tatyana Koryakina, Cláudia S. Sarrico, Pedro N. Teixeira
      Pages 63-82

    4. Students and Startups

      • Andrew Kretz, Creso M. SÁ
      Pages 83-105

    5. Institutional Inertia and Barriers to the Adoption of Open Science

      • Dimitri Gagliardi, Deborah Cox, Yanchao Li
      Pages 107-133

  4. Moving Beyond Sectoral and Disciplinary Boundaries in Higher Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Social Science Doctoral Training Policies and Institutional Responses

      • Rosemary Deem, Sally Barnes, Gill Clarke
      Pages 137-162

    3. Shifting Boundaries In Universities’ Governance Models

      • Sofia Bruckmann
      Pages 163-184

  5. Blurring Boundaries in Academic Professions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. Managing Learning Outcomes

      • Joakim Caspersen, Nicoline Frølich
      Pages 187-202

    3. Inequality in Academic Knowledge Production

      • Marek Kwiek
      Pages 203-230

    4. Conclusions

      • Emilia Primeri, Emanuela Reale
      Pages 231-236

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 237-241
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About this book

An emerging issue in higher education studies is that of boundaries crossing. This is the main topic of the book “The transformation of University institutional and organizational boundaries”. Several signals of shifting boundaries can be envisaged in higher education and research institutions which could be glimpsed through organizations, the institutions and changes to the academic profession. That of boundaries crossing in Higher Education is a complex and heterogeneous issue, which characterizes scientific knowledge today and represents a key issue when looking at University transformations across contexts and policies, instruments and practices.
The analysis of boundaries supplies interpretative frameworks for the interactions between the development of professions and disciplines, as well as the relationships of the science with various parts of society such as state, professionals and the market. Fuelling further the discussion on HEIs transformations allows capturing changes in the function, objectives and scope of higher education and research institutions, the move beyond sectoral and disciplinary boundaries and the increasingly blurred boundaries of academic professions and of scientific work. Public policies and HE reforms can push or impede the mentioned transformations but they can also derive from individual likelihood of moving in blurring spaces or from the transformations of the epistemic communities and the emergence of new fields and sectors. Hence, changes are there, open to our observations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • IRCrES, Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth of National Research Council, Rome, Italy

    Emanuela Reale, Emilia Primeri

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Transformation of University Institutional and Organizational Boundaries

  • Book Subtitle: Organizational Boundaries

  • Editors: Emanuela Reale, Emilia Primeri

  • Series Title: Higher Education Research in the 21st Century

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-178-6

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-178-6Published: 02 November 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 242

  • Topics: Education, general

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