Tina Hedmo

Uppsala University | UU · Department of Business Studies

This paper focuses on the processes through which scientific fields are organized over time. It is argued that new approaches in scientific work are hampered by authority structures within national systems for research and established approaches within disciplines, but that these obstacles can be overcome by means of external funding, particularly...

Strategic communication is today a salient feature of public organisations as they put more efforts into communicating self-presentations to their various stakeholders. This article assumes that strategic communication may pave the way for a legitimacy-reputation dilemma, because organisations in highly institutionalised fields operate under strong...

A central element in the contemporary landscape of European science is the explicit and elaborate rhetoric centered on excellence and quality. In this chapter, we explore the role of this policy rhetoric, and the general discourse on excellence and quality, in shaping a European governance field for higher education and research. How and why have E...

Computer corpus linguistics (CCL) is a scientific innovation that has facilitated the creation and analysis of large corpora in a systematic way by means of computer technology since the 1950s. This article provides an account of the CCL pioneers in general but particularly of those in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland. It is found...

The aim of this article is to explain commonalities and differences in the responses of four national educational science communities to the same external stimulus, namely international comparative large scale student assessments that offered vastly improved comparability of national results from the beginning of the 1990s. The comparison shows the...

This chapter aims to contribute to an increased understanding of how transnational or European policies and policy instruments are shaped and organised. It focuses on the role and meaning of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operating at the European level in such processes and how they interrelate with other policy actors in relational network...

Management education has expanded dramatically in Europe during the last few decades. In conjunction with this development, a growing number of new forms of regulation have become widespread, such as accrediting procedures, standards and guidelines, and more or less formalized rankings, comparisons and evaluations. The examples display the expansio...

Our age has been described as a ‘golden era of regulation’ (Levi-Faur & Jordana 2005), characterised by the ubiquitous of regulatory activities and regulatory actors, of networks and other constellations setting off an explosion of rules. Many of these rules are of a ‘soft’, legally non-binding and voluntary kind (Märth 2004). This proliferating re...

All over the world new ideas and models emerge on how to organize the higher education sector and its institutions. The contributions in this volume identify the most influential transnational models and investigate their origins and mechanisms of dissemination as well as the resulting consequences for national systems. Will global trends in higher...

Introduction Management education has expanded dramatically around the world over recent decades. The expansion has been particularly salient in Europe, where existing business schools have flourished, and new ones have proliferated. As business schools have grown, so has the number of programs on offer, particularly Master of Business Administrati...