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Organising Innovation Research The Inner Life of University Departments

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ISBN-10: 0080430724

ISBN-13: 9780080430720

Edition: 1997

Authors: Li Bennich-Bj�rkman

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The major aim of this book is to contribute to the ongoing European debate on the future relationship between government and universities. The volume refutes the wide spread notion presently adopted by several European politicians and administrators, that the most efficient way to meet the threats posed by mass university education to excellence in research and teaching is through government supervision and control, and the introduction of short-term incentives of a monetary nature. Instead this study points to the necessity for the operational units strongly to safeguard and strengthen their own capacities for self-evaluation and willingness to change, mainly through emphasis on the…    
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Book details

List price: $123.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date: 1/4/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.45" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Li Bennich-Bj örkman is Skytte Professor of Political Science and Eloquence at Uppsala University, Sweden.Aili Aarelaid-Tart is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Tallinn University, Estonia.

Chapter headings: In Pursuit of Academic Excellence
Introducing the Study
Picturing the Departments in Figures
Collaboration and Intellectual Community
Civicness and Social Cohesion
Authority and Patterns of Hierarchy
Stability, Institutional Change and the Road to Community
Creativity as an Essential By-product
Organising Innovative Research