In den letzten Jahren hat sich ein deutlicher Trend abgezeichnet: Universitaeten sind zunehmend von vielfaeltigen Wettbewerbsformen durchdrungen, die eine zentrale Rolle in der Organisation des Wissenschaftssystems spielen. Dieser Beitrag beleuchtet die Verwettbewerblichung der Wissensproduktion...

Economics holds a unique position in terms of the severity and persistence of gender imbalances and the underrepresentation of female researchers within the social sciences. There exist various reasons for this fact, as well as a variety of channels through which these imbalances are...

The article is a contribution to the evolving field of competition research. More precisely our paper provides a comprehensive typology of the different ways competitization is and has been studied across different disciplines and research programs. The article goes beyond a classical literature...

This paper develops a better understanding of the explicit and implicit implications of the academic field's competitization, with a specific focus on the role that academic social networks and platforms (ASNPs) play in this process. By applying a mixed-methods approach combining a structural...

Der gemeinnützige Wohnbau hat in Wien eine lange Tradition und gemeinnützige Bauträger haben einen großen Einfluss auf den Wohnungsmarkt. Der vorliegende Bericht berücksichtigt unterschiedliche Datenquellen, um eine detaillierte deskriptive Darstellung der gemeinnützigen Wohnbauträger in...

This chapter delineates an evolutionary approach to the comparative analysis of economic systems and illustrates its usefulness via an exemplary application to recent developments in the European Union. The first part of the chapter describes the meta-theoretical foundations of the approach,...

In the last decades many scholars have studied urban competition and entrepreneurial urban policies. Coming from the evolving field of competition research, we are interested in how urban competition is constructed and, for this purpose, examine the competition imaginary of Vienna, a city known...

Recent evidence from citation analysis [Mitra, S., Palmer, M, Vuon, V. (2020). Development and interdisciplinarity: A citation analysis. World Development, 135, 105076; hereafter MPV] shows that development as a field of study hardly interacts with other disciplines – except mainstream economics....

This paper explores whether the EU's new economic development model of 'competitive sustainability' could serve as a role model for ecologically sustaina-ble development models for advanced economies in general. To this end, we first discuss theoretically the interplay between 'competitiveness'...

We examine parallels and differences, intersections and complementarities in the notions of societal transition by Karl Polanyi and Joseph A. Schumpeter. Considering their intellectual heritage, methodology and scope, we propose a three-sphere framework to analyse their theories and study the...