282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book addresses academic labor markets in three countries: France, Germany, and the United States. The management of faculty careers is a critical issue in university autonomy, and in many countries recent reforms have increasingly addressed this area.
Musselin’s exhaustive empirical research on academic job hiring practices and faculty career patterns included over 200 interviews with... Read more
Foreword to the English Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Academic Careers: Each Country has its Own Rules
2. Three National Labor Supply Construction Models
3. Forming Collective Judgments
4. Exercising Judgment to Select a Few Candidates from Among the Many
5. Uncertainty about Quality
6. "Pricing" Academics
7. Career Dynamics and Models of the Academic Profession.
Conclusion
Appendix: Tables A-H
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Christine Musselin is Lecturer at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and Senior CNRS researcher at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations.
