This paper defends the idea that universities manufacture knowledge as a public good
through the “creative destruction” of social capital. The idea is presented as contemporary …

Universities are increasingly pressured to respond to external imperatives and demands,
while, at the same time, they are expected to enhance both their efficiency and …

This article attempts to answer the knowledge management jibe that universities are 'dumb
organisations' in need of restructuring or, worse, dissolution. In its place, the author …

The ability of a university to educate students to be responsible and informed citizens in the
future has been undercut by the market-inspired, neoliberal attempts to commercialize …

This book addresses the issue of how and why European universities are learning to
compete, in a situation where the national institutional context and sectoral conditions are …

During the past twenty-thirty years, universities have increasingly attracted attention as
sources of inspiration for regeneration of industry or as sites of industrial innovation in itself …

This book investigates the intensifying struggle for excellence between universities in a
globalized academic field. The rise of the entrepreneurial university and academic …

The article identifies, comparatively, the crisis of the contemporary university as both
government policies, in several countries, and the post-modern critique, notably Lyotard's …

I wish to deal with universities and university systems as they might evolve well into the 21st
century. I will focus on closely interlinked processes, namely the up-scaling of society on one …

The paper examines the importance of global and local factors in the current development of
universities in Western countries. Globalisation is a fashionable theoretical stance but care …