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Globalisation, models of competitive advantage and skills: SKOPE Research Paper No. 22, Autumn 2001
Keep, Ewart; Maynew, Ken - 2001
This paper examines a profound paradox in current thinking on the process of globalisation. The paradox is this: many commentators, particularly those living in Anglo-Saxon countries, see one of the main likely outcomes of globalisation as being the triumph of the Ango-Saxon business model of...
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Corporate ownership and initial training in Britain, Germany and Switzerland: SKOPE Research Paper No. 99, December 2010
Ryan, Paul; Wagner, Karin; Teuber, Silvia; … - 2010
This paper considers whether listed companies with dispersed ownership invest less in training than do other firms, as part of a short-termist stance caused by pressure from the stock market. An analytical framework that supports the proposition involves three factors: high agency costs between...
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Teaching in the Global Business Classroom
Dalglish, Carol; Evans, Peter - Edward Elgar
Teaching in the Global Business Classroom presents an educational framework for effective teaching and learning in the global classroom. It provides practical tools for teachers through suggestions for innovative curriculum design, lecture techniques, group work and participation activities, as...
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Globalization and Marketization in Education
Mok, Ka-Ho; Tan, Jason - Edward Elgar
Globalization has effected tremendous change to the character and functions of education worldwide. This unique book … tide of marketization in shaping and developing their education policies. The authors discuss the way in which increasingly … management of education in these two Asian economies. They aim to identify and examine the crucial socio-historical, socio …
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European Universities and the Challenge of the Market
Regini, Marino - Edward Elgar
This major volume sheds light on the changing relationship between higher education and the economy in the major … European nations. It is the outcome of extensive comparative research on higher education institutions and the economy in six …
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Governing Universities Globally
King, Roger - Edward Elgar
will be invaluable to higher education researchers and students, and to public policy academics, students and practitioners …
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Academic Entrepreneurship
Shane, Scott - Edward Elgar
In this unique and timely volume, Scott Shane systematically explains the formation of university spinoff companies and their role in the commercialization of university technology and wealth creation in the United States and elsewhere. The importance of university spinoff activity is discussed...
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Gestaltung vernetzt-flexibler Arbeit : Beiträge aus Theorie und Praxis für die digitale Arbeitswelt
Daum, Mario (ed.); Wedel, Marco (ed.);  … - 2020
Dieses Open-Access-Buch umfasst fünfzehn Beiträge aus sechs Verbundvorhaben, die im Rahmen des Förderschwerpunkts „Arbeit in der digitalisierten Welt“ des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung unterschiedliche Entwicklungen im Transformationsprozess der Arbeitswelt analysieren,...
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Knowledge, Diversity and Performance in European Higher Education
Bonaccorsi, Andrea (contributor) - Edward Elgar
For the first time, data on individual European higher education institutions (rather than data aggregated at the … a range of key questions, including: what is the role of non-university tertiary education, such as vocational training …
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Leadership and Cooperation in Academia
Sugden, Roger (contributor); Valania, Marcela (contributor);  … - Edward Elgar
. Similarly, policymakers and higher education commentators need the space and stimulus to reflect on the role of universities …
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