Cover Towards a Multiversity? -- Contents -- Towards a Multiversity? Universities between Global Trends and National Traditions -- Part I: Universities in Modern Society. Towards a General Understanding -- Worldwide Expansion and Change in the University -- The University in Europe and the World: Twentieth Century Expansion -- Are Universities Specific Organisations? -- Part II: The Governance of Universities. Between State Regulations and Transnational Policy-Making -- State Models, Policy Networks, and Higher Education Policy. Policy Change and Stability in Dutch and English Higher Education -- Diversity Matters: A Lesson from a Post-Communist Country -- Doctoral Education in Europe: New Structures and Models -- Is a Global Organizational Field of Higher Education Emerging? Management Education as an Early Example -- Part III: University-Industry Relations. Historical Legacies and New Forms -- From Managerial to Entrepreneurial: Universities and the Appropriation of Corporate-Based Paradigms. An Historical Perspective from Europe and the United States -- Rationalization and the Utilization of Scientific Knowledge in German and U.S.-American Discourses -- The Cifre PhDs: A Tool for Mediation between Laboratories and Firms in the Humanities and Social Sciences -- Commodification or Rationalization? Yes, please! Technology Transfer Talk in the Canadian Context -- About the Contributors.
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