Globalisation, New Managerialism, Academic Capitalism and Entrepreneurialism in Universities: Is the local dimension still important?

摘要: The paper examines the importance of global and local factors in current development universities Western countries. Globalisation is a fashionable theoretical stance but care needs to be taken applying it education, not least because social theorists cannot agree on definitions implications. Three concepts dealing with recent changes universities--new managerialism, academic capitalism entrepreneurial universities--are examined for their usefulness explaining what happening Europe North America. Following critical analysis empirical basis Slaughter & Leslie's 'Academic Capitalism' Clark's 'Creating Entrepreneurial Universities', suggested that, searching similarities convergence different countries, more localised affecting higher education institutions may under-emphasised. Furthermore, some data used comparative case-studies analysed the...