Most universities in Germany are public firms but they have many properties of cooperatives. The most important thereof are described and analysed together with the characteristics of state-sponsorship. The real companions of the university as a cooperation are its professors. The same is true...

Nach der Promotion eröffnen sich Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern viele Karriereperspektiven, innerhalb wie außerhalb der Universität. Der Wissenschaftsrat empfiehlt den Universitäten, zwei Optionen gezielt auszugestalten: erstens den Karriereweg zur Professur über den Tenure...

Welchen Einfluss hat die Expansion der Studierenden, des Personals und der Ressourcen auf die Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsbedingungen an Hochschulen? Wie hängen diese Entwicklungen mit politischen Initiativen zusammen? Wie betreiben Hochschulen Personalentwicklung für Tenure-Track-Professuren...

One of the dominant changes in academics during the last 25 years has been the steadily growing political pressure on universities to strengthen their links with and knowledge transfers to external partners. This focus on university-industry collaboration has been accompanied by another...

The compensation of a professor who is awarded an internal Canada Research Chair (CRC) increases by 6.3 percent on average in our sample. This gain is large initially but quickly erodes over CRC tenure. The gain is slightly larger for professors who change university to obtain a CRC Chair....