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Applying the Varieties of Capitalism Approach to Higher Education: Comparing the Internationalization of German and British Universities

  • In recent years, the global market for higher education has expanded rapidly, while internationalisation strategies have been developed at university, national and European levels to increase the competitiveness of higher education institutions. This article asks how institutional settings prevailing in national models of capitalism motivate distinct national approaches with regard to the internationalisation, globalisation, and Europeanisation of higher education systems. While the university is defined as an organisational actor embedded in the higher education system, the higher education system itself represents an institutional subsystem within the national model of capitalism. An analytical framework is then developed on the basis of the Varieties of Capitalism approach to compare the internationalisation of German and British universities. Findings indicate that the relations between the various actors involved in the internationalisation of universities are based largely on market coordination in the British case. In contrast, this process in Germany relies more on strategic interactions between the various organisational actors in higher education. The development paths in the internationalisation of universities are found to be influenced by and reflect the specific mode of coordination in the respective higher education system and the national model of capitalism more generally. This comparative case study shows that recent conceptions of path dependence as well as conceptual tools developed in the Varieties of Capitalism literature, such as institutional complementarity and comparative institutional advantage, may be fruitfully applied to research on institutional change in higher education systems.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Lukas GrafORCiD
Parent Title (English):European Journal of Education
Publication year:2009
First Page:569
Last Page:585
Related URL:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1465-3435.2009.01401.x/abstract;jsessionid=1EE1484E59B48BBA1C19E68F69BB5CC5.d03t03
Release Date:2018/02/09
Volume:44
Issue:4
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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