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This article discusses the development of 'heterodox' economics at universities in Germany since the 1970s. Based on … Lakatos' concept of scientific research programmes (SRP), the article introduces a classification of economics in order to … clarify the understanding of variety within economics, especially in the case of Germany. Based on this classification and …
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We study faculty recruitment issues in a university. We develop a cost minimization model that considers the decision-making process for the university administration by proposing a new approach of selecting tenure and non-tenure track faculty who are expected to achieve the institutional...
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[eBuilding the future of younger generations is the unalterable role of higher education everywhere. For this purpose, countries develop a plan or strategy in order to harmonize their education system with their development endeavours and comply with the dynamism of the time. Cognizant to this,...
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Internationalization receives top priority in nearly any university mission statement. But why? What is the value of internationalization for a university? Is the purpose to improve a university’s ranking, or to explore new revenue sources by entering foreign, mostly Asian, educational...
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In line with the growing relevance of higher education and science for societal development and innovation processes, there has been a steady increase in the salience of interrelations with the extra-academic environment in the context of academics' work. Insights into the status of this...
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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...
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