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  • Higher Education and Green Transitions

    Capabilities for a Sustainable World

    Edited by Rómulo Pinheiro, Debananda Misra, Yuzhuo Cai ...
    This book explores the multifaceted roles of universities in driving green transitions, with a particular emphasis on the teaching and learning missions alongside third mission roles. It argues that universities are uniquely positioned to address urgent sustainability challenges, such as climate change and resource depletion, but that key barriers – structural and cultural – remain.International ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Higher Education Policy for Tackling Climate Change

    Drivers, Dynamics, and Effects

    Edited by Jouni Kekäle, Rómulo Pinheiro ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book investigates the roles of universities and other types of higher education institutions in tackling climate change. Climate change is arguably the most pressing concern of our era, and one of the biggest challenges humanity has faced. In line with this, there is a firm belief that higher education institutions are among the key actors in the fight against climate change, especially in ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Organizational Resilience

    Interdisciplinary Insights

    Edited by Maria Laura Frigotto, Rómulo Pinheiro ...
    Series Book 99 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
    This volume contains two Open Access chapters.Organizational Resilience: Interdisciplinary Insights explores the interplay between resilience and neighboring concepts like crisis management, power, paradoxes, hybridity, sustainability and more. A curated collection of contributions from leading figures in these areas, authors acknowledge the multifaceted ways in which resilience is both used and ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • Higher Education and Regional Development

    Tales from Northern and Central Europe

    Edited by Rómulo Pinheiro, Mitchell Young, Karel Šima ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book analyses the role of universities as critical actors in the socio-economic development of peripheral regions in Norway and the Czech Republic. Examining the ambiguities of the traditional mission of a university in comparison to contemporary demands, the editors and contributors move past single-case analyses to adopt an integrated conceptual and analytical framework. The authors ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Universities and Regional Development

    A Critical Assessment of Tensions and Contradictions

    Edited by Paul Benneworth, Glen A. Jones, Romulo Pinheiro ...
    Series series International Studies in Higher Education
    Universities are under increasing pressure to help promote socio-economic growth in their local communities. However until now, no systematic, critical attention has been paid to the factors and mechanisms that currently make this process so daunting. In Universities and Regional Development, scholars from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia critically address this knowledge gap, focusing on ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Higher Education in the BRICS Countries

    Investigating the Pact between Higher Education and Society

    Edited by Simon Schwartzman, Rómulo Pinheiro, Pundy Pillay ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    In spite of the increasing attention attributed to the rise in prominence of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries, few studies have looked at the ways in which broader social expectations with respect to the role of higher education across the BRICS have changed, or not, in recent years. Our point of departure is that, contrary to the conventional wisdom focusing on ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Towards a Comparative Institutionalism

    Forms, Dynamics and Logics Across the Organizational Fields of Health Care and Higher Education

    by Michael Lounsbury ...
    Series Book 45 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
    The book examines ongoing dynamics within the organizational fields of health and higher education, with a focus on collective (public universities and hospitals) and individual (professionals) actors, structures, processes and institutional logics. The fact that universities and hospitals share a number of important characteristics, both being hybrid organizations, professional bureaucracies, and ... Read more

    $175.99 USD

  • Mergers in Higher Education

    The Experience from Northern Europe

    Edited by Rómulo Pinheiro, Lars Geschwind, Timo Aarrevaara ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book addresses the critical knowledge gaps of mergers involving higher education institutions. It is based on a comparative research project (spring 2013-spring 2015) investigating the phenomena of mergers involving higher education institutions across the Nordic countries – Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The study involved close to 30 scholars from the region, and aimed at shedding ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Higher Education and Regional Green Transitions

    Navigating Tensions, Complexities and Solutions

    Edited by Rómulo Pinheiro, Ina Drejer, Dzamila Bienkowska, Vito Laterza, Markku Sotarauta ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    Higher education institutions (HEIs) play a pivotal yet underexplored role in Regional Green Transitions (RGTs) and sustainable development. This volume addresses this knowledge gap by examining how universities in the Nordic region engage with RGTs, offering theoretical and methodological insights from diverse disciplines such as economic geography, political economy, organisational theory and ... Read more

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  • Universities and Regional Engagement

    From the Exceptional to the Everyday

    Edited by Tatiana Iakovleva, Elisa Thomas, Laila Nordstrand Berg, Rómulo Pinheiro, Paul Benneworth ...
    Series series
    The study of universities’ role in regional engagement has traditionally been focusing on exceptional cases. This book presents a reconceptualization which embraces its underlying complexity and proposes a roadmap for a renewed research agenda. Starting from the grassroots level of universities’ everyday engagements, the book delves into the manifold ways in which university knowledge agents build ... Read more

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  • Towards Resilient Organizations and Societies

    A Cross-Sectoral and Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

    Edited by Rómulo Pinheiro, Maria Laura Frigotto, Mitchell Young ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book brings together scholars in the fields of management, public policy, regional studies, and organization theory around the concept of resilience. The aim is to provide a more holistic understanding of the complex phenomenon of resilience from a multi-sectorial, cross-national, and multidisciplinary perspective. The book facilitates a conversation across diverse disciplinary ... Read more

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  • Digital Transformations in Nordic Higher Education

    Edited by Rómulo Pinheiro, Cathrine Edelhard Tømte, Linda Barman, Lise Degn, Lars Geschwind ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book expands the scholarly and policy debates surrounding digital transformation in higher education. The authors adopt a pluralistic conceptual framework which uncovers three analytical elements – contexts, mediations, and type of effects – for unpacking empirical manifestations. The publicly funded higher education systems in Nordic countries provide solid empirical insights ... Read more

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