Tim Seidenschnur
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1430294 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tim Seidenschnur |
| PRENOMES | Tim |
| SOBRENOME | Seidenschnur |
| ASSINATURA | SEIDENSCHNUR T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Kassel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4688-4182 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
In Need of a Coalition of the Willing. How University Presidents Depend on Partners for Organisational Leadership
There are two major perspectives at the interface of organisational and higher education research. One describes universities as organisations transforming into organisational actors and university presidents as actors who have gained more power as important drivers of this process. The other perspective acknowledges this transformative trend but rather highlights that universities are more change resistant than other organisations and that their…
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 …
Lions, Game Players and Niche Providers
This research addresses two important developments in the academic field: First, universities are transforming into organisational actors, gaining more responsibilities and capacities for strategic action, and second, competition has reached a new level. An important driver of competition and universities' development towards strategic actorhood is funding contests in which actors compete with proposals over a limited timeframe with clear evaluat…
The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on higher education governance in Europe
Universities, as public organisations, exemplify three competing institutional logics regarding governance. First, the state wields considerable control over universities through a Weberian bureaucratic logic. Second, university managers have been granted increased autonomy under a neoliberal, managerial logic. Third, a traditional academic logic involves a high degree of self-regulation and peer control. The country-specific ways in which this b…
Competition on hold? How competing discourses shape academic organisations in times of crisis
This research deals with the question of how the Covid-19 pandemic affected discourses on competition in higher education organisations and how other discourses occurred and gained power. Additionally, it focusses on changes which take place in windows of opportunities that occur through discursive change in times of crisis. We show that discourses on competition have been highly influential in the field of academia. However, the pandemic rapidly…
Multiple roles of the state – federal states and their roles in how universities compete in Germany
Competition in higher education is intensifying worldwide and gaining increasing scholarly attention. However, it is not always easy to observe how competition actually takes place. Our research focuses on one example where competition becomes not only visible but also analyzable: State-led funding contests exemplified by the Excellence Initiative (EI) in Germany. While funding contests in Germany have been established as contests between univers…
How do universities compete? Introduction to the special issue
Competition in higher education seems ubiquitous. Universities today compete for values such as diversity and internationality in the same way as they compete for innovation, impact and employability. The meaning and perception of competition in higher education have changed substantially within the last decades. Competition today is imperative, attribute and action. It is detached from distinct frames – relevant in political science, sociology a…
Translating student evaluation of teaching
Student evaluation of teaching (SET) has not yet been studied historically and comparatively. Based on our interviews with professors and administrators at 18 universities in three countries, we discuss how SET diffused in all the studied universities and how SET was translated and edited differently according to different sets of statements. SET diffused from the US, where it was initiated by students in the 1950s and later adopted by universiti…
The metrification of teaching
By means of a systematic comparison of three countries we investigate the origins and conditions for the diffusion of student evaluation of teaching (SET). We found that (a) SET is present cross-nationally; (b) SET was initiated in the US during the 1950s by students and adopted in the 1970s by universities, while German and Colombian universities started implementing SET during the 2000s; and that (c) common cultural elements for adopting SET in…
A typology of social characters and various means of control
This paper argues that Covid-19 has produced a set of social characters during the corona crisis and that these characters represent different approaches toward control. Social characters emerge as constructs responding to current discourses. They may function as role models in uncertain times and offer orientation. The paper identifies such characters in communication on the online platform Jodel. It analyses and discusses the properties of the …
Berater im Spiegel des Feldes. Eine professionssoziologische Rekonstruktion ihrer Legitimierung in Verwaltungen und Universitäten
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 6 - 32
Wissenschaft, Universität, Professionen
How do universities compete? Introduction to the special issue
Competition in higher education seems ubiquitous. Universities today compete for values such as diversity and internationality in the same way as they compete for innovation, impact and employability. The meaning and perception of competition in higher education have changed substantially within the last decades. Competition today is imperative, attribute and action. It is detached from distinct frames – relevant in political science, sociology a…
The metrification of teaching
By means of a systematic comparison of three countries we investigate the origins and conditions for the diffusion of student evaluation of teaching (SET). We found that (a) SET is present cross-nationally; (b) SET was initiated in the US during the 1950s by students and adopted in the 1970s by universities, while German and Colombian universities started implementing SET during the 2000s; and that (c) common cultural elements for adopting SET in…
A typology of social characters and various means of control
This paper argues that Covid-19 has produced a set of social characters during the corona crisis and that these characters represent different approaches toward control. Social characters emerge as constructs responding to current discourses. They may function as role models in uncertain times and offer orientation. The paper identifies such characters in communication on the online platform Jodel. It analyses and discusses the properties of the …
Wissenschaft, Universität, Professionen
Berater im Spiegel des Feldes. Eine professionssoziologische Rekonstruktion ihrer Legitimierung in Verwaltungen und Universitäten
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 6 - 32
A typology of social characters and various means of control
This paper argues that Covid-19 has produced a set of social characters during the corona crisis and that these characters represent different approaches toward control. Social characters emerge as constructs responding to current discourses. They may function as role models in uncertain times and offer orientation. The paper identifies such characters in communication on the online platform Jodel. It analyses and discusses the properties of the …
The metrification of teaching
By means of a systematic comparison of three countries we investigate the origins and conditions for the diffusion of student evaluation of teaching (SET). We found that (a) SET is present cross-nationally; (b) SET was initiated in the US during the 1950s by students and adopted in the 1970s by universities, while German and Colombian universities started implementing SET during the 2000s; and that (c) common cultural elements for adopting SET in…
Translating student evaluation of teaching
Student evaluation of teaching (SET) has not yet been studied historically and comparatively. Based on our interviews with professors and administrators at 18 universities in three countries, we discuss how SET diffused in all the studied universities and how SET was translated and edited differently according to different sets of statements. SET diffused from the US, where it was initiated by students in the 1950s and later adopted by universiti…
Competition on hold? How competing discourses shape academic organisations in times of crisis
This research deals with the question of how the Covid-19 pandemic affected discourses on competition in higher education organisations and how other discourses occurred and gained power. Additionally, it focusses on changes which take place in windows of opportunities that occur through discursive change in times of crisis. We show that discourses on competition have been highly influential in the field of academia. However, the pandemic rapidly…
Multiple roles of the state – federal states and their roles in how universities compete in Germany
Competition in higher education is intensifying worldwide and gaining increasing scholarly attention. However, it is not always easy to observe how competition actually takes place. Our research focuses on one example where competition becomes not only visible but also analyzable: State-led funding contests exemplified by the Excellence Initiative (EI) in Germany. While funding contests in Germany have been established as contests between univers…
How do universities compete? Introduction to the special issue
Competition in higher education seems ubiquitous. Universities today compete for values such as diversity and internationality in the same way as they compete for innovation, impact and employability. The meaning and perception of competition in higher education have changed substantially within the last decades. Competition today is imperative, attribute and action. It is detached from distinct frames – relevant in political science, sociology a…
Lions, Game Players and Niche Providers
This research addresses two important developments in the academic field: First, universities are transforming into organisational actors, gaining more responsibilities and capacities for strategic action, and second, competition has reached a new level. An important driver of competition and universities' development towards strategic actorhood is funding contests in which actors compete with proposals over a limited timeframe with clear evaluat…
The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on higher education governance in Europe
Universities, as public organisations, exemplify three competing institutional logics regarding governance. First, the state wields considerable control over universities through a Weberian bureaucratic logic. Second, university managers have been granted increased autonomy under a neoliberal, managerial logic. Third, a traditional academic logic involves a high degree of self-regulation and peer control. The country-specific ways in which this b…
In Need of a Coalition of the Willing. How University Presidents Depend on Partners for Organisational Leadership
There are two major perspectives at the interface of organisational and higher education research. One describes universities as organisations transforming into organisational actors and university presidents as actors who have gained more power as important drivers of this process. The other perspective acknowledges this transformative trend but rather highlights that universities are more change resistant than other organisations and that their…
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 (9 obras) · Higher Education Governance and Development (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Economics (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · Public relations (4 obras) · Sociology and Education Studies (4 obras) · Economic growth (3 obras)