Leaders and academics can improve the quality of higher education teaching, and thereby the quality of their graduates, by reflecting on institution-wide practices. This book explores the interplay between actors within institutions, organisational structure, commitment of senior leadership,...

Fred Terman was an outstanding American engineer, teacher, entrepreneur, and manager. Terman was also deeply devoted to his students, to engineering, and to Stanford University. This biography focuses on the weave of personality and place across time-it examines Terman as a Stanford faculty...

Wodurch werden Tiefe und Richtung der nach Fusionen realisierten organisationalen Integration bestimmt? Anhand von Hochschulzusammenschlüssen und geleitet durch die Resource-Dependence-Theorie zeigt der Verfasser empirisch, dass aus Umweltabhängigkeiten folgende interne Machtrelationen...