Rankings and Global Knowledge Governance

Higher Education, Innovation and Competitiveness

Tero Erkkilä, Ossi Piironen (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

XIII, 260 Seiten

2019 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-88687-9 (ISBN)

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Higher education and innovation policies are today seen as central elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly measured by global rankings. The book analyses the evolution of indicator-based global knowledge governance, where various national attributes have been evaluated under international comparative assessment. Reflecting this general trend, the Shanghai ranking, first published in 2003, has pressured governments and universities all over the world to improve their performance in global competition. More recently, as global rankings have met criticism for their methodology and scope, measurements of various sizes and shapes have proliferated: some celebrating novel methodological solutions, others breaking new conceptual grounds. This book takes a fresh look at developments in the field of knowledge governance by showing how emerging indicators, innovation indexes and subnational comparisons are woven into the existing fabric of measurements that govern our ideas of higher education, innovation and competitiveness. This book argues that while rankings are becoming more numerous and fragmented, the new knowledge products, nevertheless, tend to reproduce ideas and practices existing in the field of global measurement.

Tero Erkkilä is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His previous publications include Government Transparency (2012) and Global University Rankings (2013), both published by Palgrave Macmillan. Ossi Piironen is Senior Researcher at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland. He has published in various peer reviewed journals and has several years of experience teaching in global governance and methodology of political science at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Theory: Rankings as Policy Instruments.- Chapter 3. Ideational Background of Global Knowledge Governance.- Chapter 4. Rise of Global Rankings and the Competitive Logic.- Chapter 5. Field Structuration and Fragmentation of Global Rankings.- Chapter 6. From Global to Local: Regional and City-Level Alternatives to Global Rankings.- Chapter 7. Rankings and Global Knowledge Governance.

"The core strength of this book lies in its broad historical analysis of how global rankings have evolved over time. ... Overall this book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of global rankings for public management over time and of how higher education ... . the way the authors present historical background afforded me a holistic view of how and why higher education has been associated with global rankings and competitiveness for more than a decade." (Busra Kulakoglu, Educational Review, Vol. 74 (3), 2022)

“The core strength of this book lies in its broad historical analysis of how global rankings have evolved over time. … Overall this book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of global rankings for public management over time and of how higher education … . the way the authors present historical background afforded me a holistic view of how and why higher education has been associated with global rankings and competitiveness for more than a decade.” (Busra Kulakoglu, Educational Review, Vol. 74 (3), 2022)

Erscheinungsdatum	08.03.2019
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 260 p. 15 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	364 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
Schlagworte	field structuration • global rankings • Knowledge Economy • national economic competitiveness • Policy instruments • University rankings
ISBN-10	3-319-88687-8 / 3319886878
ISBN-13	978-3-319-88687-9 / 9783319886879
Zustand	Neuware