The university under pressure / / editor, Elizabeth Popp Berman, Catherine Paradeise

• Pubblicazione: Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2016; ©2016
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (526 p.)
• Disciplina: 378.01
• Soggetto topico: Education, Higher - Aims and objectives; Universities and colleges - Administration
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): BermanElizabeth Popp; ParadeiseCatherine
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; The University under Pressure; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Editorial Advisory Board; Introduction: The University under Pressure; Thinking about the University as an Organization; Global Changes and World Society Theory; Field-Level Analysis; Institutional Logics and the Linking of Levels; Resource Dependence; Organizational Design; Sources of Pressure on the University; University Responses to Pressure; Field-Level Effects of University Responses; Conclusion; Notes; References; Part I: The University Under Pressure - An Overview ; The Changing Ecology of U.S. Higher Education: An Organization Field PerspectiveHigher Education as an Organization Field; College Populations; Baccalaureate Colleges; Comprehensive Colleges; Research Universities; Associate Degree Colleges; Special-Focus Institutions; For-Profit Enterprises; A Regional Example: The San Francisco Bay Area; Isomorphic Pressures; Regulatory Systems; Normative Systems; Cultural-Cognitive Controls; Competitive Pressures; Rating Systems; Rising Costs; Societal Forces Shaping the Field of Higher Education; Reinforcing and Recasting Forces ; Economic and Stratification ConnectionsGovernmental Connections; Disruptive Forces; New Technologies; New Types of Students and Work Requirements; New Forms; Concluding Comments; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Nested Organizational Fields: Isomorphism and Differentiation among European Universities; Introduction; On the Way to a New European University Model?; The Nested Organizational Field Structure of European Universities; Isomorphism and Differentiation among European Universities; Coercive Isomorphism; Coercive Pressure via Formal Regulation; Coercive Pressure via Resources ; Mimetic IsomorphismNormative Isomorphism; The Academic Profession; University Leaders; Conclusion and Discussion; Notes; Acknowledgment; References; Part II: Pressures at the Field Level; The Emergent Action Field of Metrics: From Rankings to Altmetrics; Introduction; Setting the Scene: The New Regime of Governmentality and the Development of the Action Field of Metrics in Europe and the U...; Truth, Governmentality, and Action Field of Metrics; From a Regime of Truth to a New Regime of Governmentality; The Emerging Action Field of Metrics ; A Comparative Approach to Policy Fields of Higher EducationThe United States: A Consumer-Driven Market; Europe and the Rest of the World: A Policy-Makers-Driven Market; From Changes in the Policy Field of Higher Education to the Emergence of a New Organizational Field of Rankings; Developing Productive Organizations; Commercial Rankings; Public Rankings; Bibliometric Data Providers; Open-Source Players; Fabricating Rankings; Assembling Competencies; Selecting Institutions and Indicators; Developing Technologies; Building a Professional Community; Leveraging Up Audiences; The Demand Side ; The Supply Side
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The university under pressure
• ISBN: 1-78560-830-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465943603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Research in the sociology of organizations ; ; Volume 46.