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

La búsqueda de la efectividad organizacional o de los sistemas organizativos es una tarea
recurrente en cualquier organización. En este sentido, el presente trabajo se propuso …

Previous research has claimed that universities can enhance the effectiveness of knowledge
transfer activities by establishing a clear strategic goal and aligning all their activities …

Purpose–Despite evaluating the performance of university-industry alliances being
extremely important, scholars have not developed any structured and commonly accepted …

In the last years, universities have assumed a prominent role in the science and technology-
based economic development. The concept of entrepreneurial university, a key concept in …

While it is common to claim that university reforms are based on universal and standardised
ideas about 'modernising'the university, few studies have examined in a more coherent way …

This article investigates the form of European universities to determine the extent to which
they resemble the characteristics of complete organizations and whether the forms are …

The purpose of this study is to examine efficiency and its determinants in a set of higher
education institutions (HEIs) from several European countries by means of non-parametric …

University rankings are the subject of a paradox: the more they are criticized by social
scientists and experts on methodological grounds, the more they receive attention in policy …

This paper makes a contribution to the debate on university organisational actorhood by
theorising the determinants of institutional strategic positioning. It argues that besides …