Universities as Agencies

Reputation and Professionalization

Tom Christensen, Åse Gornitzka, Francisco O. Ramirez (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

XIV, 278 Seiten

2018 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-06498-3 (ISBN)

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This book discusses how modern universities increasingly use reputation management in relation to internal and external challenges. Universities are increasingly characterized by social embeddedness, relating to many external stakeholders and international markets of students, researchers and research projects. This implies global pressure to standardize, formalize and rationalize their internal organization. The book uses data from China, Norway and US to show how reputation symbols are used and balanced, based on their web pages. Further, it uses extensive data from US universities to show how their internal organization structure is developing over time, related to three types of units/positions - development, diversity and legal offices and roles.

Tom Christensen is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway. Åse Gornitzka is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway. Francisco O. Ramirez is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology, Stanford University, USA.

1. Reputation Management, Social Embeddedness and Rationalization of Universities. T.Christensen, Å.Gornitzka and F.O.Ramirez.- 2. Reputation Management in Nordic Universities - Profiles and Development over Time. T.Christensen and Å.Gornitzka.- 3. Reputation Management Revisited: U.S.Universities Presenting Themselves Online. S.G.Gavriela and F.O.Ramirez.- 4. Reputation profile of Chinese universities - converging with global trends or national characteristics? M.Liang and T.Christensen.- 5. Social Science Disciplines in Complex Development Contexts - the Professionalization Dimension of Reputation Management. T.Christensen and L.Klemsdal.- 6. What We Stand for: Reputation Platforms in Scandinavian Higher Education. A.Wæraas and H.L. Sataøen.- 7. Marketing the American University: Professionalization of Development in Entrepreneurial Universities. N.A.Skinner and F.O.Ramirez.- 8. Enacting Diversity inAmerican Higher Education. N.Kwak, S.G.Gavriela and F.O.Ramirez.- 9. The Legal Rationalization of American Higher Education. J.Furuta and F.O.Ramirez.- 10. Socially embedded universities and the search for meaning B.Stensaker.

"Compared to other studies on reputation management and branding in higher education, this book adds to our understanding by providing more empirical examples showing the complexity of these phenomena in contemporary HEIs." (Jelle Mampaey, European Journal of Higher Education, August 02, 2019)

“Compared to other studies on reputation management and branding in higher education, this book adds to our understanding by providing more empirical examples showing the complexity of these phenomena in contemporary HEIs.” (Jelle Mampaey, European Journal of Higher Education, August 02, 2019)

Erscheinungsdatum	21.01.2019
Reihe/Serie	Public Sector Organizations
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 278 p. 9 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	384 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
Schlagworte	academic league tables • Chinese universities • Comparative analysis • convergence • core symbols • cultural and symbolic explanations • divergence • Elite universities • Formalization • insitutional diversity • nordic universities • organizational actor • professionalization • rationalization • Reputation Management • reputation management profiles • social embeddedness • socially-embedded universities • Universities
ISBN-10	3-030-06498-0 / 3030064980
ISBN-13	978-3-030-06498-3 / 9783030064983
Zustand	Neuware