RE-BECOMING UNIVERSITIES?

Provides a novel and comprehensive analysis of how higher education institutions are networked within distinct knowledge societies Offers innovative methodological approaches and theoretical discussion on modern knowledge-based economies and societies ? Provides an overview of the major findings of the comparative research project, Changes in Networks, Higher Education and Knowledge Society (CINHEKS) Winner of the 2016 ASHE Council for International Higher Education (CIHE) Research Award

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Preface.- PART I. THEORY, DESIGN AND CONTEXT.- Chapter 1 Introduction to the Book and the Comparative Study (Jussi Välimaa & David Hoffman) .- Chapter 2 Higher Education in Networked Knowledge Societies (Jussi Välimaa, Vassiliki Papatsiba & David M. Hoffman). Chapter 3 The CINHEKS Research Design: Taking Stock and Moving Forward (David M. Hoffman & Hugo Horta).- Chapter 4 National stories, convergent trends and divergent paths: discursive construction of Higher Education and Knowledge Society - nexus in higher education policy texts of five knowledge societies (Terhi Nokkala) <.- PART II. WITHIN AND BETWEEN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS.- Chapter 5 Diversity of Higher Education Institutions in Networked Knowledge Societies: a Comparative Examination (John Brennan, Vassiliki Papatsiba, Sofia Sousa & David M. Hoffman) .- Chapter 6 Why public policies fostering knowledge networks in academia matter? Insights from the Portuguese higher education system (Hugo Horta & Brigida Blasi) .- Chapter 7 Transformation in the knowledge transmission mission of Russian universities: social versus economic instrumentalism (Anna Smolentseva) .- Chapter 8 Changing practices, changing values?: A Bernsteinian analysis of knowledge production and knowledge exchange in two UK universities. (Brenda Little, Andrea Abbas and Mala Singh) Chapter 9 Global, national and local? The competitive horizons and multilayered spatial ties of universities (Anna Kosmützky and Amy Ewen) .- Chapter 10 'World Class Local Heroes': Emerging Competitive Horizons and Transnational Academic Capitalism in FinnishHigher Education 2010-2012 (David M. Hoffman, Terhi Nokkala & Jussi Välimaa) .- Chapter 11: Exploring social network ties of U.S. academics: The importance of employee status, institutional type, discipline, and geography (Aurelia Kollasch, Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, Blanca Torres-Olave and Gary Rhoades) .- Chapter 12 The CINHEKS Comparative Survey: Emerging Design, Findings, and the Art of Mending Fractured Vessels (Blanca Torres-Olave, Hugo Horta, Aurelia Kollasch, Jenny Lee and Gary Rhoades) .- PART III. COMPARATIVE FINDINGS.- Chapter 13 Main Findings and Discussion (Jussi Välimaa, David M. Hoffman, John Brennan, Gary Rhoades and Ulrich Teichler).- Appendices.- A CINHEKS Higher Education Institutional Profile Template.- B CINHEKS Interview Protocol.- C CINHEKS Draft Survey Examples.- D CINHEKS Open Access Approach to Further Research.