Anna Kosmützky
Biographic Data
| ID | 292032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Kosmützky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Kosmützky |
| SIGNATURE | KOSMÜTZKY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz University Hannover |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9628-4559 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Clusterization of Research in Universities: An Emerging Model, Its Forms and Consequences
Clusterized research is an increasingly dominant model of organizing research that profoundly affects contemporary universities. Historically, universities’ primary missions of research and teaching were carried out by departments. Clusterized research now challenges these departmental structures and traditional university governance. This paper examines the growth and implications of various organizational forms of clusterized research. These fo…
Competition as a catalyst for collaboration: How German universities navigate the paradox of organizational research governance
The article explores the interplay between competition and collaboration in the context of organizational research governance in higher education organizations. Amidst the dynamic landscape of contemporary science and higher education, the paper investigates the paradoxical situation faced by German universities. Fueled by a desire for recognition and resources, these organizations engage in fierce competition for third-party funding and particip…
Multiple Competition? An Analysis of Thematic Research Clusters on Competition and Higher Education
Competition in higher education is widespread. Its prevalence is accompanied by increasing interrelations between different competitions. This article systematically analyses the as yet underexplored intellectual structure of the international scholarly discussion on competition in higher education, including its relation to science and industry, based on a combination of bibliometric coupling and qualitative content analysis using a database of …
Analyzing Constellations of Multiple Competition in Science and Higher Education
Increasing competition in science and higher education has sparked contentious debate and scholarly attention in recent years. Despite their significant merits, prevailing accounts of competition fall short of capturing the competitive dynamics in science and higher education: Most of the time, actors in this sector are involved in not just one but several competitions. Universities as organizations, researchers as individual actors, and also sta…
Competing: An Analytical Framework and Application in Higher Education
The article introduces a conceptual framework for analyzing competition in higher education, with a focus on competing as action. Drawing on Georg Simmel's sociological insights and behavioral decision theory, the framework captures key elements of competition. It distinguishes between observing and four forms of courting: performing, strategic informing, influencing valuation criteria, and attracting attention. To demonstrate its potential, the …
Still the Century of the University as a Global Institution? Comparative Perspectives
The text belongs to the “Review Symposium: Universities between Inter- and Re-Nationalization” by Michael Hölscher and Julia Schubert
The Variance of German University Governance: Exploring the Effects of Organizational Field Positions
Varieties of collaboration: On the influence of funding schemes on forms and characteristics of international collaborative research projects (ICRPs)
This article discusses characteristics and forms of international collaborative research projects (ICRPs) and provides conceptual considerations as well as initial empirical insights on the impact of funding conditions on ICRPs in the social sciences and external project funding. Specifically, by presenting a German case study of funding formats in two national funding institutions and the funding tools of the European Commission in Horizon 2020.…
Between context and comparability: Exploring new solutions for a familiar methodological challenge in qualitative comparative research
Finding the balance between adequately describing the uniqueness of the context of studied phenomena and maintaining sufficient common ground for comparability and analytical generalisation has widely been recognised as a key challenge in international comparative research. Methodological reflections on how to adequately cover context and comparability have extensively been discussed for quantitative survey or secondary data research. In addition…
Towards a methodology discourse in comparative higher education
Tracing the development of international branch campuses: From local founding waves to global diffusion
On the basis of the proliferation of international branch campuses, the paper analyses globalisation processes in higher education and the emergence of a transnational and global higher education market. While most research only refers to a growth and global expansion of branch campuses, this analysis traces and illuminates four waves of international branch campus foundations in different areas of the world and their specific founding conditions…
Transcending Borders and Traversing Boundaries: A Systematic Review of the Literature on Transnational, Offshore, Cross-Border, and Borderless Higher Education
This article is a review of the literature concerned with transnational, offshore, cross-border, and borderless higher education, which together form a new thematic field within higher education research from the early 2000s onwards. The review places emphasis on the development of this field as well as its most cited contributions. The literature derives from the Database of Research on International Education, while the citation data comes from…
Mission Statements and the Transformation of German Universities into Organizational Actors
In this paper, I analyze the ongoing processes through which German universities are transformed into organizational actors by developing and disseminating mission statements. The empirical research links the analysis of how organizations use mission statement texts to an analysis of reform discourses. Based on an analysis of higher education reform policy documents, case studies of mission statement development, and a content analysis of mission…
Towards a Multiversity? Universities between Global Trends and National Traditions
Towards a Multiversity: Universities between Global Trends and National Traditions
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 education lead to homogeneity or will they result in an increased differentiation? This question is…
Towards a Multiversity: Universities between Global Trends and National Traditions
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 education lead to homogeneity or will they result in an increased differentiation? This question is…
Tracing the development of international branch campuses: From local founding waves to global diffusion
On the basis of the proliferation of international branch campuses, the paper analyses globalisation processes in higher education and the emergence of a transnational and global higher education market. While most research only refers to a growth and global expansion of branch campuses, this analysis traces and illuminates four waves of international branch campus foundations in different areas of the world and their specific founding conditions…
Mission Statements and the Transformation of German Universities into Organizational Actors
In this paper, I analyze the ongoing processes through which German universities are transformed into organizational actors by developing and disseminating mission statements. The empirical research links the analysis of how organizations use mission statement texts to an analysis of reform discourses. Based on an analysis of higher education reform policy documents, case studies of mission statement development, and a content analysis of mission…
The Variance of German University Governance: Exploring the Effects of Organizational Field Positions
Towards a Multiversity? Universities between Global Trends and National Traditions
Towards a Multiversity: Universities between Global Trends and National Traditions
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 education lead to homogeneity or will they result in an increased differentiation? This question is…
Transcending Borders and Traversing Boundaries: A Systematic Review of the Literature on Transnational, Offshore, Cross-Border, and Borderless Higher Education
This article is a review of the literature concerned with transnational, offshore, cross-border, and borderless higher education, which together form a new thematic field within higher education research from the early 2000s onwards. The review places emphasis on the development of this field as well as its most cited contributions. The literature derives from the Database of Research on International Education, while the citation data comes from…
Mission Statements and the Transformation of German Universities into Organizational Actors
In this paper, I analyze the ongoing processes through which German universities are transformed into organizational actors by developing and disseminating mission statements. The empirical research links the analysis of how organizations use mission statement texts to an analysis of reform discourses. Based on an analysis of higher education reform policy documents, case studies of mission statement development, and a content analysis of mission…
Tracing the development of international branch campuses: From local founding waves to global diffusion
On the basis of the proliferation of international branch campuses, the paper analyses globalisation processes in higher education and the emergence of a transnational and global higher education market. While most research only refers to a growth and global expansion of branch campuses, this analysis traces and illuminates four waves of international branch campus foundations in different areas of the world and their specific founding conditions…
Between context and comparability: Exploring new solutions for a familiar methodological challenge in qualitative comparative research
Finding the balance between adequately describing the uniqueness of the context of studied phenomena and maintaining sufficient common ground for comparability and analytical generalisation has widely been recognised as a key challenge in international comparative research. Methodological reflections on how to adequately cover context and comparability have extensively been discussed for quantitative survey or secondary data research. In addition…
Towards a methodology discourse in comparative higher education
Varieties of collaboration: On the influence of funding schemes on forms and characteristics of international collaborative research projects (ICRPs)
This article discusses characteristics and forms of international collaborative research projects (ICRPs) and provides conceptual considerations as well as initial empirical insights on the impact of funding conditions on ICRPs in the social sciences and external project funding. Specifically, by presenting a German case study of funding formats in two national funding institutions and the funding tools of the European Commission in Horizon 2020.…
Still the Century of the University as a Global Institution? Comparative Perspectives
The text belongs to the “Review Symposium: Universities between Inter- and Re-Nationalization” by Michael Hölscher and Julia Schubert
The Variance of German University Governance: Exploring the Effects of Organizational Field Positions
Analyzing Constellations of Multiple Competition in Science and Higher Education
Increasing competition in science and higher education has sparked contentious debate and scholarly attention in recent years. Despite their significant merits, prevailing accounts of competition fall short of capturing the competitive dynamics in science and higher education: Most of the time, actors in this sector are involved in not just one but several competitions. Universities as organizations, researchers as individual actors, and also sta…
Competing: An Analytical Framework and Application in Higher Education
The article introduces a conceptual framework for analyzing competition in higher education, with a focus on competing as action. Drawing on Georg Simmel's sociological insights and behavioral decision theory, the framework captures key elements of competition. It distinguishes between observing and four forms of courting: performing, strategic informing, influencing valuation criteria, and attracting attention. To demonstrate its potential, the …
Clusterization of Research in Universities: An Emerging Model, Its Forms and Consequences
Clusterized research is an increasingly dominant model of organizing research that profoundly affects contemporary universities. Historically, universities’ primary missions of research and teaching were carried out by departments. Clusterized research now challenges these departmental structures and traditional university governance. This paper examines the growth and implications of various organizational forms of clusterized research. These fo…
Competition as a catalyst for collaboration: How German universities navigate the paradox of organizational research governance
The article explores the interplay between competition and collaboration in the context of organizational research governance in higher education organizations. Amidst the dynamic landscape of contemporary science and higher education, the paper investigates the paradoxical situation faced by German universities. Fueled by a desire for recognition and resources, these organizations engage in fierce competition for third-party funding and particip…
Multiple Competition? An Analysis of Thematic Research Clusters on Competition and Higher Education
Competition in higher education is widespread. Its prevalence is accompanied by increasing interrelations between different competitions. This article systematically analyses the as yet underexplored intellectual structure of the international scholarly discussion on competition in higher education, including its relation to science and industry, based on a combination of bibliometric coupling and qualitative content analysis using a database of …
Higher Education Governance and Development (11 works) · Higher education (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · German (4 works) · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Economics (3 works)