Universities under Neoliberalism

Ideologies, Discourses and Management Practices

Mats Benner, Mikael Holmqvist, Mats Benner, Mikael Holmqvist

• Editorial: Routledge
• Año: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000861327
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Business
• Categoría: Corporate Governance

The COVID-19 pandemic, the surge of populism, the climate crisis and many other destabilizing factors in our time, all point at the expectation of trustworthy knowledge and reliable organization devoted to knowledge production and dissemination. However, universities remain enmeshed in economic liberalization and ensuing cultural struggles where their funding, governance and practices reflect market imprints – even academic ideals such as originality, or social ideals such as relevance have been transformed into measurable units and thereby risk losing their historical sway. This predicament is the focus of this book.

The book explores the rise of neo-liberalization in academic system in a highly unlikely place: Sweden, a country with a strong social democratic tradition and a long history of state regulation of higher education. As an advanced welfare state with a powerful labour movement and a large public sector, market ideals and practices have been carefully curtailed historically. This notwithstanding, a neoliberal university model has evolved there, reshaping notions of academic identities, institutional directions and notions of quality. This edited collection will be of value to researchers, academics and students with an interest in organizational studies, governance, management, higher education, sociology and politics.

Índice

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Beyond Neoliberalized Research: From Auditing to Reflexive Governance
• 3 Publication Strategy as Ideology at Swedish Universities
• 4 Corporations' Invisible Hand in Higher Education: Teaching at Business Schools and the Making of Employable Students
• 5 Social Media and Higher Education: On the Influx of Facebook in Swedish Academia
• 6 The Neoliberal University and Its Effects on Academic Researchers – Survey Evidence from Sweden
• 7 Making Ends Meet: Limiting Factors for Managerial Bureaucratization at the University of Helsinki and Stockholm School of Economics in the 2010s
• Index