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Zhou, Ji.

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Accountability, Prestige, and the Changing Academic Profession: Interacting Logics, Decoupling, and Recoupling Processes at a Chinese Research University.

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正題名/作者:	Accountability, Prestige, and the Changing Academic Profession: Interacting Logics, Decoupling, and Recoupling Processes at a Chinese Research University./
作者:	Zhou, Ji.
面頁冊數:	238 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-03(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-03A(E).
標題:	Higher education. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3644728
ISBN:	9781321331066

Accountability, Prestige, and the Changing Academic Profession: Interacting Logics, Decoupling, and Recoupling Processes at a Chinese Research University.
Zhou, Ji.

Accountability, Prestige, and the Changing Academic Profession: Interacting Logics, Decoupling, and Recoupling Processes at a Chinese Research University. - 238 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-03(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation examines the extent to which demands of accountability and prestige from various sources---the state, the market, the corporation, the Confucian family, and the academic profession---shape the changing academic life at a Chinese research university. The objective is to understand the interface between external demands and internal policies and processes of defining and evaluating academics' work, and the extent to which academics align their interpretations and actions with these policies and external demands. Three dimensions have emerged to affect the university's policies, including the governance structure of Chinese higher education, the academic prestige of the university, and the socioeconomic context where the university is located. Four dimensions have emerged to affect academics' interpretations and actions, including age, discipline and academic rank, employment track, and gender. These findings highlight the varied extent of decoupling and recoupling between university policies and practices as well as between individuals' interpretations and actions for different academics and for the same academic at different time points. In other words, say versus do or symbolic versus substantive change are not as dichotomous as common conceptions of universities might predict, due to the increasing demand for accountability and prestige. Further, the alignment between academics' interpretations and actions facing top-down change is not as coherent as organization theory might predict, due to the governance structure and the current developmental stage of Chinese higher education. Broadly speaking, this dissertation provides a glimpse of the changing academic profession along China's striving for modernization via a combined strong state and free market economy. Comparatively speaking, this dissertation highlights two different dynamics---assimilation versus blending---between higher education and external logics (i.e., the state, the market, the corporation, and the Confucian family) in shaping the changing academic profession: assimilation of external logics into academic profession in the West (e.g., the UK and US higher education) and blending of these logics with academic profession in Chinese higher education. These two different dynamics are embedded in different higher education governance structures (decentralized versus centralized) and developmental stages (developed versus developing), resulting in different broad change processes (fragmentation, incremental change versus conformity, abrupt change) between the West and China.

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