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Rankings and Global Knowledge Governance [electronic resource] : Higher Education, Innovation and Competitiveness / by Tero Erkkilä, Ossi Piironen.

Erkkilä, Tero, author.; Piironen, Ossi, author.
2018
LB2300-2799.3
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Title
Rankings and Global Knowledge Governance [electronic resource] : Higher Education, Innovation and Competitiveness / by Tero Erkkilä, Ossi Piironen.
Author
Erkkilä, Tero, author.
ISBN
9783319689418
331968941X
9783319689401
3319689401
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68941-8
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XIII, 260 pages 15 illustrations) : online resource.
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10.1007/978-3-319-68941-8 doi
9783319689401
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LB2300-2799.3
Dewey Decimal Classification
378
Summary
Higher education and innovation policies are today seen as central elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly measured by global rankings. The book analyses the evolution of indicator-based global knowledge governance, where various national attributes have been evaluated under international comparative assessment. Reflecting this general trend, the Shanghai ranking, first published in 2003, has pressured governments and universities all over the world to improve their performance in global competition. More recently, as global rankings have met criticism for their methodology and scope, measurements of various sizes and shapes have proliferated: some celebrating novel methodological solutions, others breaking new conceptual grounds. This book takes a fresh look at developments in the field of knowledge governance by showing how emerging indicators, innovation indexes and subnational comparisons are woven into the existing fabric of measurements that govern our ideas of higher education, innovation and competitiveness. This book argues that while rankings are becoming more numerous and fragmented, the new knowledge products, nevertheless, tend to reproduce ideas and practices existing in the field of global measurement.
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Piironen, Ossi, author.
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Palgrave studies in global higher education.
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Theory: Rankings as Policy Instruments
Chapter 3. Ideational Background of Global Knowledge Governance
Chapter 4. Rise of Global Rankings and the Competitive Logic
Chapter 5. Field Structuration and Fragmentation of Global Rankings
Chapter 6. From Global to Local: Regional and City-Level Alternatives to Global Rankings
Chapter 7. Rankings and Global Knowledge Governance.

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