Introduction: Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education: An Overview; Cummings and Shin
PART I. Theoretical Basis
2. The Teaching and Research Nexus in the Third Wave Age; Arimoto
3. The Research Role in Comparative Perspective; Cummings
4. Teaching and Curriculum Development across Countries; Huang
PART II. Research Focused Systems
5. Teaching and Research in Germany: The Notions of University Professors; Teichler
6. Teaching and Research at Italian Universities: Continuities and Changes; Rostan
7. The Changing Balance of Teaching and Research in the Dutch Binary Higher Education System; De Weert and Van der Kaap
8. The Scholarly Question in Finland: to Teach or not to Teach; Aarrevaara, Dobson and Postareff
9. Teaching and Research: perspectives from Portugal; Santiago, Sousa, Carvalho, Marchado-Taylor and Dias
10. Teaching and Research of Korean Academics across Career Stages; Shin, Jung and Kim
PART III. Teaching Focused Systems
11. The Divergent Worlds of Teaching and Research among Mexican Faculty: Tendencies and Implications; Galaz-Fontes, Martinez-Stack, Estevez-Nenninger, Padilla-Gonzalez, Gil-Anton, Sevilla-Garcia and Arcos-Vega
12. Research and Teaching in a Diverse Institutional Environment: Converging Values and Diverging Practices in Brazil; Schwartzman and Balbachevsky
13. Current Challenges Facing the Academic Profession in Argentina: Tensions between Teaching and Research; Leal and Marquina
14. Teaching and Research in Malaysian Public Universities: Synergistic or Antagonistic?; Azman, Pang, Sirat and Yunus
15. From Teachers to Perfect Humboldtian Persons to Academic Superpersons: The Teaching and Research Activities of the South African Academic Profession; Wolhuter
PART IV. Teaching and Research Balanced Systems
16. The Balance between Teaching and Research in the Work Life of American Academics; Finkelstein
17. Teaching and Research in English Higher Education: The Fragmentation, Diversification and Reorganization of Academic Work, 1992-2007; Locke
18. Teaching, Research and the Canadian Professoriate; Jones, Gopaul, Weinrib, Metcalfe, Fisher, Gingras and Rubenson
19. Australian Academics, Teaching and Research: History, Vexed issues and Potential Changes; Bentley, Goedegebuure and Meek
Concluding Observations
20. Teaching and Research across Higher Education Systems: A Typology and Implications; Shin and Cummings
21. Teaching and Research: A Vulnerable Linkage?; Teichler and Arimoto.