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Is the Reference Model Replicable?

In: In Search of Academic Quality

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  • Catherine Paradeise

    (University Paris-Est)

  • Jean-Claude Thoenig

    (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University Paris-Dauphine)

Abstract

At first sight, the drift for excellence that emerged in the late 2000s has induced massive snowball effects and is from now on involving any higher education and research institution worldwide. It has changed fundamentally the landscape inside the academic community, legitimized new ways of policy-making, and gained the attention of public opinion and media. In a way, it has created a sort of iron cage, this concept having been used to describe the emergence and triumph of bureaucracy in the 1800s and early 1900s as a rational efficiency-based theory and organizational structure to administer public agencies (Weber 1949). Today, not to join the bandwagon effect of excellence may be considered as an expression of stubborn radical criticism-whether conservative or leftist-or as a symptom of irrational management of knowledge and education institutions.

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  • Catherine Paradeise & Jean-Claude Thoenig, 2015. "Is the Reference Model Replicable?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: In Search of Academic Quality, chapter 8, pages 192-218, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-29829-4_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137298294_9
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