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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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This paper develops theoretical standpoints to investigate and analyse university inventors and patenting activities. Although the studies on academic entrepreneurship and university patenting have substantially increased, first there have not been enough studies on individual inventors and...
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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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Wettbewerb spielt in den verschiedenen Phasen einer akademischen Karriere eine Rolle. Er fängt schon im Kindergarten an und hört nach der Pensionierung nicht auf, ist jedoch im Bemühen um die erste Professur auf Lebenszeit am größten. Neben der Wettbewerbsintensität ändern sich auch die...
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