This book brings together research relating to the economics of higher education in Ireland and presents evidence that will help support policy decision making. It provides an analysis of prominent issues within the higher education sector from an economic viewpoint, discussing the relevant...

Dieses Lehrbuch über die Einführung in die Bildungsökonomie fasst die wichtigsten theoretischen und empirischen Arbeiten seit dem Entstehen des Forschungsfelds zusammen. Sie bietet damit einen kurzgehaltenen Überblick über die ökonomische Bedeutung der Bildung in ihren unterschiedlichen...

Die Autonomie von Universitäten sowie deren historische Entwicklung führten dazu, dass sich dort ein spezieller Organisationstypus herausgebildet hat, der notwendige Reaktionen auf aktuelle Herausforderungen erschwert. Reformansätze mit dem Ziel einer Professionalisierung des Managements von...

This edited volume proposes that the phenomenon of private sector, financialized higher education expansion in the United States benefits from a range of theoretical and methodological treatments. Social scientists, policy analysts, researches, and for-profit sector leaders discuss how and to...

Work Motivation And Job Satisfaction As Antecedents Of Research Performance: Investigation Of Different Mediation Models -- Beyond Publication Counts: The Impact Of Citations And Combined Metrics On The Performance Measurement Of German Business Researchers -- Measuring balanced effectiveness...

Ulrich Bremer examines the internationalization process of German public research universities, extracts multiple expected factors of impact from existing theory, tests them against data and thus delivers implications for research and practice. Strategy-based international partnerships,...

Focusing on the role entrepreneurship centres can play within the UK and other countries; this edited volume explores the effective construction of viable and sustainable entrepreneurship centres. It questions how these Higher Education Centres contribute to enterprise and entrepreneurship...

This thematic volume explores the relationship between the arts and learning in various educational contexts and across cultures, but with a focus on higher education and organizational learning. Arts-based interventions are at the heart of this volume, which addresses how they are conceived,...