This paper examines the objectives, content and methods of Comparative Industrial Relations courses in Australian and New Zealand universities. It identifies changes in the approaches to teaching the subject since a 1990 survey. Using 25 course outlines at both undergraduate and postgraduate level from 15 universities, the paper examines some of the choices lecturers face-selection of countries...

We fear that future economic and political ‘selection forces’ upon universities will further push academic roles towards the extremes of our triangle (i.e. towards role specialisation). For example, Mervis [6] recently highlighted that US universities will be (or already are) under increasing economic pressure, with shrinking support from government and private or industrial sources, a situatio...

The current study provides a comprehensive analysis and integration of the literature on the social network correlates of individual innovation. Reviewing the extant literature, we cluster existing network measures into five general properties—size, strength, brokerage, closure, and diversity. Using meta-analysis, we estimate the population effect sizes between these network properties and inno...

In the light of various studies carried out in various socio-economic areas, scientific and cultural development has been introduced as a prerequisite and fundamental factor for sustainable development of the societies. Obviously, universities, as a "scientific and intellectual command center of the society" have a fundamental and unique role and function. In order to achieve this, the most sig...

This paper contributes with two new findings to the literature on how universities contribute to industrial development. First, it argues and substantiates quantitatively through logistic regression models that introduction of academically skilled graduates in small, know-how-based firms can be instrumental in spurring innovation and upgrading changes in the firms. Second, it argues and substan...

This article aims to fully investigate the activities of Federal Universities Russia in context various aspects development and find appropriate comprehensive assessment methods that can be applied modern universities meet best global standards. The main research are comparative analysis formation qualimetric models based on synthetically selected evaluation criteria. Structural changes Russian...

Forschungsplattform Alexandria https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch | 22.12.2015 Due to the Bologna Declaration and the according procedures of performance management and output funding universities are undergoing organisational changes both within and across the universities. The need for an appropriate organisational structure and for efficient and effective processes makes the support through a c...

The aim of the REGENA research project is the conceptual development and the comparative evaluation of lowinvestment measures for optimising building operation energetically in universities and colleges. Besides an analysis of building technology, emphasis is also placed on environmental psychological consideration of user behaviour. Using a comprehensive monitoring system, the energy consumpti...