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The University under Pressure
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Description for The University under Pressure
Hardback. Universities are under pressure. Their resource environment is evolving, demands for accountability have increased and demographic shifts are changing higher educational needs. This volume provides a cross-national picture of how the university as an organization is reacting to, adapting to, and threatened by a period of intense pressure. Series: Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Num Pages: 461 pages. BIC Classification: JNMN; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Universities are under pressure. All over the world, their resource environment is evolving, demands for accountability have increased, and competition has become more intense. At the same time, emerging countries have become more important in the global system, demographic shifts are changing educational needs, and new technologies threaten, or promise, to disrupt higher education. This volume includes cutting-edge research on the causes and consequences of such pressures on universities as organizations, particularly in the U.S. and Europe. It provides an empirical overview of pressures on universities in the Western world, and insight into what globalization means for universities and also ... Read more
Universities are under pressure. All over the world, their resource environment is evolving, demands for accountability have increased, and competition has become more intense. At the same time, emerging countries have become more important in the global system, demographic shifts are changing educational needs, and new technologies threaten, or promise, to disrupt higher education. This volume includes cutting-edge research on the causes and consequences of such pressures on universities as organizations, particularly in the U.S. and Europe. It provides an empirical overview of pressures on universities in the Western world, and insight into what globalization means for universities and also ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
461
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Bingley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785608315
SKU
V9781785608315
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About Hardback
Edited by Elizabeth Popp Berman, University at Albany, SUNY, USA Catherine Paradeise, Universite Paris-Est-Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Societes, France
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