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- Benner, Mats, et al.
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Att kunna spela oförenligheternas spel
- 2008
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In: Forska lagom och vara världsbäst? Sverige inför forskningens globala strukturomvandling.. - Stockholm : SNS förlag. ; , s. 269-290, s. 269-290
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- Benner, Mats, et al.
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Beyond Neoliberalized Research : From Auditing to reflexive Governance
- 2023
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In: Universities under Neoliberalism : Ideologies, Discourses and Management Practices - Ideologies, Discourses and Management Practices. - New York : Routledge. - 9781032159294 - 9781003246367 ; , s. 10-25
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- For many years, universities represented the ultimate outpost for professional autonomy in Western democracies. Despite little insight into the professional practices of scholars or administrators, governments provided the academic profession with extensive discretion, including the freedom to regulate qualifications for positions, terms for promotion, quality standards, goals, performance indicators and financial budgets. This freedom has become increasingly conditioned and strained during recent decades. Governments have commissioned universities to act like corporations to compete for funding, questioned established goals and performance indicators and enforced new market-based ideas in new governance models. These ideas, commonly described as “New Public Management,” include reforms to promote “academic excellence”, relevance of research outputs to policy-makers and practitioners, and high numbers of graduated students. In all, this has challenged the professional autonomy that previously was taken for granted and resulted in a changing professional practice at universities, largely inspired by a business ethos. Increasingly, however, governments have started to investigate alternative governance and leadership models, providing increased autonomy to the local levels and building on the intrinsic motivation of publicly employed professionals. This chapter describes and discusses Swedish experiences from a new approach to quality enhancement at universities, aiming to reduce the need for external control and strengthen the academic profession, while at the same time meeting external expectations with regard to transparency and performance. In its ideal form, the approach exemplifies, we argue, a shift from a top-down approach to quality assessment, to a trust-based bottom-up process, building on the judgement of academic professionals themselves.
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- Benner, Mats, et al.
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Foundations and the new renewal of research
- 2022
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In: Smart Policies for Societies in Transition : The Innovation Challenge of Inclusion, Resilience and Sustainability - The Innovation Challenge of Inclusion, Resilience and Sustainability. ; , s. 213-227
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- Benner, Mats, et al.
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Modet att ta ansvar
- 2008
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In: Forska lagom och vara världsbäst? Sverige inför forskningens globala strukturomvandling.. ; , s. 155-166
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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
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Higher Education in the Knowledge Society : Miracle or Mirage
- 2016
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In: Multilevel Governance in Universities : Strategy, Structure and Control - Strategy, Structure and Control. - Berlin : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. - 9783319326788 ; , s. 75-90
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- Benner, Mats, et al.
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Becoming World Class : What It Means and What It Does
- 2020
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In: World Class Universities : A Contested Concept - A Contested Concept. - Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore. - 2570-026X .- 2570-0251. - 9789811575976 - 9789811575983 ; , s. 25-40
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- On the basis of a critical survey of university strategies, it is argued that universities reify and objectify “world class” and turn it into absolute and precisely defined goals (location in ranking hierarchies, publication patterns, number of start-ups and licens-es, etc.) and that this in turn is based on a skewed reading of the ascendancy of some universities (notably leading US higher education institutions) to that level. The notion of a “world class university” may therefore be self-defeating as it entails even closer monitoring, adaptation and adoption of indicators and steering that is outlined accordingly.
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