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Maesse, Jens – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
From the 1990s onwards, economics departments in Europe have changed toward a culture of "excellence." Strong academic hierarchies and new forms of academic organization replace "institutes" and "colleges" by fully equipped "economics departments." This article seeks to demonstrate how and why…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Organizational Change, Economics Education
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Braun, Susanne; Nazlic, Tanja; Weisweiler, Silke; Pawlowska, Beata; Peus, Claudia; Frey, Dieter – Journal of Leadership Education, 2009
Research in commercial organizations has provided a multitude of examples on how leadership development can effectively foster employees' performance and work-related attitudes such as commitment or satisfaction. In contrast, to date systematic leadership development is largely lacking for employees in higher education. However, we suggest that…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
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Danton, J. Periam – Library Quarterly, 1983
This article advances hypothesis that current university library book expenditures are no greater than past expenditures and explores six methodological questions involved in testing the hypothesis. A comparative study of German university libraries in 1860 and 1960 and American unversity libraries in 1910 and 1960 is presented. References are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Books, Budgets, College Faculty