The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the determinants of promotions to professorship in the French academia in three disciplines : Management, History and Physics. Among these determinants, we focus on the impact of personal attributes (age and gender), scientific production and...

Ce rapport présente les principaux résultats d'un programme de recherche pluridisciplinaire consacré aux ressorts de la carrière des femmes dans l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche.

Ce texte interroge les vertus et les limites des concours nationaux de recrutement dans la haute fonction publique, valorisés comme garantissant à la fois l'intérêt général, en sélectionnant les plus qualifiés, et l'intérêt particulier, en assurant un jugement sur le mérite. Nous...

Higher education has entered centre-stage in the context of the knowledge economy and has been deployed in the search for economic competitiveness and social development. Against this backdrop, this highly illuminating Handbook explores worldwide convergences and divergences in national higher...

How can we engage in a market relationship when the quality of the goods we want to acquire is unknown, invisible, or uncertain? For market exchange to be possible, purchasers and suppliers of goods must be able to assess the quality of a product in relation to other products. Only by...

La massification de l'enseignement, la multiplication des classements, la transformation des modes de financement et, plus généralement, l'internationalisation constituent quelques-uns des bouleversements profonds auxquels est confronté l'enseignement supérieur dans la plupart des pays de...

Universities are expected to be important players in the development of knowledge economies; therefore, they are a priority on the policy agenda of the European commission and of member states. To understand the new institutional settings where knowledge production is achieved, we must turn our...

NPM reforms that have been led recently in the public sector in many countries strongly emphasize the notion of performance. If the effects of these reforms on the core micro-processes of organizations retained a great deal of attention, few studies examined how these changes transformed the...

Dans cette contribution, nous essaierons de répondre à la question : quelle est la nécessité d’éclairages multiples sur les politiques publiques par différentes disciplines au sein des sciences humaines, c'est-à-dire l'interdisciplinarité ? Faut-il aller jusqu’à un effacement des...

Using the now classic distinction drawn by P.B. Doeringer and M.J. Piore between internal and external labour markets, this article endeavours to characterise university labour markets and recent developments affecting them in three countries, namely France, Germany and the United States. It is...