William K. Cummings & Ulrich Teichler 
The Relevance of Academic Work in Comparative Perspective 

The Relevance of the Academy : William K. Cummings and Ulrich Teichler.- The Conditions of Continuity and the Drivers of Change : William K. Cummings.- Coping with the Crisis: Academic Work and Changes in Greek Higher Education: Antigoni Papadimitriou.- Changing Academic Identities in the Context of a Managerial University – Bridging the Duality between Professions and Organizations Evidence from the U.S. and Europe: Liudvika Leisyte.- Teaching and Research in Binary Systems of Higher Education: Convergent or Distinctive Profiles? Egbert de Weert.- The Teaching and Research Nexus from an International Perspective: Akira Arimoto.- Congeniality and Research Productivity in State-Professional-Market Driven Systems of Mass Higher Education: Gerard A. Postiglione and Jisun Jung.- Growth Behavior of Research Collaboration with Heterogeneous Colleagues and Research Commercial Activities in Korean Academics: Soo Jeung Lee.- Academics and Service to the Community: An International (European) Perspective: Bojana Ćulum.- Gender Differences in Research Scholarship among Academics: An International Comparative Perspective: Jisun Jung.- The Academic Profession: The Dynamics of Emerging Countries: Monica Marquina and Mariela Ferreiro.- The Impact of Government Policies on the Profiles and Attitudes of Academics in two Emerging Economies: Brazil and Mexico: Jorge Martínez Stack, Marion Lloyd, and Imanol Ordorika.- The Transformation of the Production and Circulation of Knowledge and the Pedagogic Synergy: A Research Study on Three Argentine Universities: Graciela C. Riquelme.- The Latin American University Model and the Challenges Posed by the Reforms: From the Perspectives of the Academics: Elizabeth Balbachevsky.