The first part of this book deals with the transformation of universities as strategic organisational actors in some cases creating them as such while the second shows how governance and authority shifts are affecting the kinds of research goals being pursued by academics in different public...

The complex global environment for entrepreneurship has experienced significant change during the past decade. University based entrepreneurship is at the nexus of this environment. Students and faculty of entrepreneurship are uniquely positioned as agents in the movement of discovery and...

'Organisational Control in University Management: A Multiparadigm Approach' focuses on significant reform and change in large organisations. The book takes as its primary focus the example of management reform at the University of Tartu, Estonia, foregrounding the complexity of change and reform...

Universities and Entrepreneurship: meeting the educational and social challenges addresses the concerns on how universities nurture entrepreneurship and how this leads to their transformation into entrepreneurial universities. This novel edited volume attempts to answer the following timely...

Emotional Self-Management in Academia draws on new empirical research from academics' own personal accounts of emotional experiences from their everyday practice to illustrate how their emotional work is adapting in response to a constantly changing workplace. Marilena Antoniadou and Mark...

We explore the role of self- and peer evaluations in education, with a particular emphasis on gender differences. We construct a model of (self-)deception to predict outcomes for scenarios with and without self-evaluation. By using unique data from a first-year economics class at a Sino-UK...

Leveraging rich data on the universe of Texas high school graduates, we estimate how the relationship between geographic access to public two- and four-year postsecondary institutions and postsecondary outcomes varies across race-ethnicity and socioeconomic status. We find that students are...

Purpose – This paper aims to highlight the planning and implementation processes of a higher education institution ISO 9000 quality management system. Design/methodology/approach – The paper discusses the issues and challenges faced by the institution in the process of maintaining and going...