Governance and Performance in the German Public Research Sector Disc
Today, higher education and research institutions are confronted with variable and sometimes contradictory demands from state, industry and society. They have to face growing volatility in education policy, and a research paradigm that sees an acceleratin
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HIGHER EDUCATION DYNAMICS VOLUME 32 Series Editor Peter Maassen, University of Oslo, Norway, and University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Johan Muller, Graduate School of Humanities, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa Editorial Board Alberto Amaral, CIPES and Universidade do Porto, Portugal Akira Arimoto, Hiroshima University, Japan Nico Cloete, CHET, Pretoria, South Africa David Dill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Jürgen Enders, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Patricia Gumport, Stanford University, USA Mary Henkel, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom Glen Jones, University of Toronto, Canada
SCOPE OF THE SERIES Higher Education Dynamics is a bookseries intending to study adaptation processes and their outcomes in higher education at all relevant levels. In addition it wants to examine the way interactions between these levels affect adaptation processes.It aims at applying general social science concepts and theories as well as testing theories in the field of higher education research. It wants to do so in a manner that is of relevance to all those professionally involved in higher education, be it as ministers, policy-makers, politicians, institutional leaders or administrators, higher education researchers, members of the academic staff of universities and colleges, or students. It will include both mature and developing systems of higher education, covering public as well as private institutions.
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Governance and Performance in the German Public Research Sector Disciplinary Differences Edited by Dorothea Jansen German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, Germany
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Editor Prof. Dr. Dorothea Jansen German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer Chair for Sociology of Organization Speyer, Germany [email protected]
ISSN 1571-0378 ISBN 978-90-481-9138-3 e-ISBN 978-90-481-9139-0 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9139-0 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010928830 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface and Acknowledgements
In May 2001, a group of scholars from Europe met at a conference on “International Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity in Universities and Research Organisations” at the German Institute for Public Administration in Speyer. The conference which was supported by the German Research Foundation aimed to discuss the reforms and changes in the governance of the German public research sector in the contex
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