TY - BOOK ID - 32935052 TI - Rankings and Global Knowledge Governance : Higher Education, Innovation and Competitiveness AU - Erkkilä, Tero. AU - Piironen, Ossi. PY - 2018 SN - 331968941X 3319689401 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Universities and colleges KW - Education, Higher. KW - Education and globalization. KW - Ratings and rankings. KW - Education. KW - School management and organization. KW - School administration. KW - Educational policy. KW - ducation and state. KW - Educational sociology. KW - Assessment. KW - Higher education. KW - Education and sociology. KW - Sociology, Educational. KW - Higher Education. KW - Educational Policy and Politics. KW - Sociology of Education. KW - Administration, Organization and Leadership. KW - Assessment, Testing and Evaluation. KW - Globalization and education KW - Globalization KW - College rankings KW - College ratings KW - Rankings of universities and colleges KW - Ratings of universities and colleges KW - University rankings KW - University ratings KW - College students KW - Higher education KW - Postsecondary education KW - Rankings KW - Evaluation KW - Education KW - Educational tests and measuremen. KW - Education and state. KW - Administration, Educational KW - Educational administration KW - Inspection of schools KW - Operation policies, School KW - Policies, School operation KW - School administration KW - School inspection KW - School operation policies KW - School organization KW - Schools KW - Management KW - Organization KW - Education and sociology KW - Social problems in education KW - Society and education KW - Sociology, Educational KW - Sociology KW - Education policy KW - Educational policy KW - State and education KW - Social policy KW - Endowment of research KW - Inspection KW - Management and organization KW - Aims and objectives KW - Government policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32935052 AB - Higher education and innovation policies are today seen as central elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly measured by global rankings. The book analyses the evolution of indicator-based global knowledge governance, where various national attributes have been evaluated under international comparative assessment. Reflecting this general trend, the Shanghai ranking, first published in 2003, has pressured governments and universities all over the world to improve their performance in global competition. More recently, as global rankings have met criticism for their methodology and scope, measurements of various sizes and shapes have proliferated: some celebrating novel methodological solutions, others breaking new conceptual grounds. This book takes a fresh look at developments in the field of knowledge governance by showing how emerging indicators, innovation indexes and subnational comparisons are woven into the existing fabric of measurements that govern our ideas of higher education, innovation and competitiveness. This book argues that while rankings are becoming more numerous and fragmented, the new knowledge products, nevertheless, tend to reproduce ideas and practices existing in the field of global measurement. ER -