Academic Capitalism: Universities in the Global Struggle for Excellence

by Richard Münch

This book investigates the intensifying struggle for excellence between universities in a globalized academic field. The rise of the entrepreneurial university and academic capitalism are superimposing themselves on the competition of scientists for progress of knowledge and recognition by the scientific community. The result is a sharpening institutional stratification of the field. This stratification is produced and continuously reproduced by the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415840147
• ISBN13: 9780415840149
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"