Market for Academics

Informationen zum Autor Christine Musselin is Lecturer at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and Senior CNRS researcher at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations. Klappentext This book addresses academic labor markets in three countries: France, Germany, and the United States. The management of faculty careers is a critical issue in university autonomy, and in many countries recent reforms have increasingly addressed this area. Musselin's exhaustive empirical research on academic job hiring practices and faculty career patterns included over 200 interviews with faculty members and administrators concerning two disciplines: history and math. Each of the countries has very different historical traditions with regard to how peers recruit their colleagues within the academy. Using what is known as an "economics of quality" comparative approach, she sheds new light on faculty worklife. The author's focus on the criteria of evaluation in academic hiring decisions is a unique contribution and one that should stimulate the current debates on higher education reforms. Zusammenfassung The management of faculty careers is a critical issue in university autonomy, and in many countries recent reforms have increasingly addressed this area. Musselin examines this crucial issue through the use of exhaustive empirical research – including over 200 interviews – on academic job hiring practices and faculty career patterns. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword to the English Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Academic Careers: Each Country has its Own Rules 2. Three National Labor Supply Construction Models 3. Forming Collective Judgments 4. Exercising Judgment to Select a Few Candidates from Among the Many 5. Uncertainty about Quality 6. "Pricing" Academics 7. Career Dynamics and Models of the Academic Profession. Conclusion Appendix: Tables A-H Notes Bibliography Index ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Tania G. Cassidy, Tania G. Jones Cassidy, Cassidy Tania G., Robyn L. Jones, Christine Musselin, Christine (Centre De Sociologie Des Orga Musselin, Christine (Centre de Sociologie des Organisations Musselin, Musselin Christine, Paul Potrac, Potrac Paul
• Mitarbeit: Amy Jacobs (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 24.11.2009
• EAN: 9780415996839
• ISBN: 978-0-415-99683-9
• Seiten: 264
• Serien: Studies in Higher Education; Studies in Higher Education
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Allgemeines, Lexika; Hochschulbildung, Fort- und Weiterbildung, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, Public Relations, Philosophy and theory of education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Physical Education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher