This timely and important book provides a critical analysis of the changes and challenges that currently affect European universities. Using both theoretical contributions and applied case studies, leading experts argue that universities as institutions are in need of change – although the...

Management fads are increasingly a hot topic within Organization Theory. Recent articles have described the production process of fads, the role of «ideological» waves in explaining their emergence, and the development of management rhetoric supporting the fads. Despite this growing interest,...

Scandals and normality are at opposite extremes in the continuum of social reproduction of the existing order. As normality has no clear definition, scandals benefit a huge amount from classifications, however, the dissatisfactions fail to provide an overall conceptual map. I develop a four-type...

The paper focuses on the role academic organizations and their members play within their socio-economic and socio-political contexts. It presents findings of the case study of a German university. Based on qualitative interviews, written documents and bibliometric analyses, we can see that,...

type="main" <title type="main">Abstract </title> <p>Greenwood, Hinings and Whetten (2014) present two major criticisms of current institutional scholarship, and see need for a broad redirection: institutional organization theory, they argue, has lost sight of the claim to study organizations and, with its overwhelming...</p>

This paper proposes finite mixtures of different Archimedean copula families as a flexible tool for modelling the dependence structure in multivariate data. A novel approach to estimating the parameters in this mixture model is presented by maximizing the penalized marginal likelihood via...

In this paper we show that fully likelihood-based estimation and comparison of multivariate stochastic volatility (SV) models can be easily performed via a freely available Bayesian software called WinBUGS. Moreover, we introduce to the literature several new specifications which are natural...