Many OECD countries are aiming to reform their tertiary education (TE) systems. This work explores the determinants of the investment in TE, with a focus on institutional setting of TE systems and private incentives to undertake years of schooling beyond upper-secondary degree level. For this...

L'enseignement supérieur subit une profonde mutation, comment va-t-il subir le choc de l'harmonisation et de la mondialisation des diplômes ? Deux universitaires réputés, un mathématicien et un économiste, s'expriment sur la question et les réformes nécessaires.

L’Université Paris-Dauphine intéresse, intrigue, dérange parfois. Comment cette université est-elle parvenue à se hisser au niveau des grandes écoles ? Par quel statut est-elle autorisée à sélectionner ses étudiants ? Comment concilie-t-elle sa position universitaire et son ouverture...

The purpose of this article is to discuss how policies can affect investment in tertiary education in ways that would eliminate some of the perceived shortcomings of existing systems, while preserving or (preferably) enhancing equality of access to higher education. To this end, the analysis...

Quality judgements in terms of academic standards of excellence required by external stakeholders such as labour markets and steering hierarchies obviously exert strong pressure on universities. Do they generate an ‘iron cage’ effect, imposing a passive and uniform conformity on global...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the contours of the emerging business education and institutions in a multi-polar world and to identify the causes of the strategic convergence of management education, to explore the limitations of the dominant models of management education...

The purpose of this research was to examine student perceptions of academic integrity among faculty and peers at a sample of public universities in Romania. The study explores the factors that influence academic dishonesty among college students and compares the relative importance of faculty...

We assess the importance of information flows from universities to innovative firms and determine the relative contribution of formal collaboration and pure knowledge spillovers in this process. We find that spillovers provide the most benefit to firms that imitate existing technologies or those...

Quel est le métier d’un Professeur d’université et, plus spécifiquement, d’un Professeur de Management aujourd’hui ? Quelles sont ses diverses fonctions ? Quel est le véritable portefeuille d’activités d’un Professeur de Management au 21e siècle, à l’heure où la diffusion...