How universities transform occupations and work in the 21st century : the academization of German and American economies / edited by Manfred Stock, Alexander Mitterle, and David P. Baker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stock, Manfred, editor.

Mitterle, Alexander, editor.

Baker, David P., editor.

Series:

International perspectives on education and society ; Volume 47.

International Perspectives on Education and Society Series ; Volume 47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business and education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leeds, England : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2024]

Summary:

Presented here is ground-breaking comparative research on an underappreciated, yet growing, concurrent alternative process: universities and their expanding research capacity create knowledge and skills, legitimated in new degrees that then become monetized and even required in private and public sectors of economies.

Contents:

Half Title Page

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

About the editors

About the Contributors

Chapter 1: Academization: A New Perspective on Occupations

1. Introduction

2. Exploring Academization of Occupations

3. Academization: Creating Classifications and Constructing Needs

3.1. Empirical Trend 1: Growth of Postsecondary Education

3.2. Empirical Trend 2: Counterintuitive Labor Market Reaction

3.3. Empirical Trend 3: The Expansion of the University Research Conglomerate

3.4. Empirical Trend 4: Why Academization Instead of Professionalization?

4. Has Academization Rationalized and Legitimated Occupations?

References

Chapter 2: The Academic Roots of Digitalization: How the University Shaped Work Processes in Companies

2. The Academic Field in the Process of Digitalization

3. Application-oriented Computer Science in the Context of Industrially Motivated Research Funding and University Expansion

4. Individuals, Fields, Constellations: Reconstruction of the Emergence of the Field of Wirtschaftsinformatik

4.1. Corporate Data and the Construction of Operationally Relevant “Information” – Both Theoretical Knowledge Base and Practical Expected Impact

4.2. Academic Problem Construction: Information Systems and the Necessities They Induced to Develop the Field

5. Digitalization as an Academic Project and its Consequences

Chapter 3: Educating Entrepreneurs: Long Path to Bloom in German Universities Generated by AI.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Stock, Manfred How Universities Transform Occupations and Work in the 21st Century

ISBN:

9781837538485

1837538484