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Over the past 20 years the field of higher education (HE) has become a crucial site of multidisciplinary investigation. Its perceived strategic function as linchpin of and catalyst to the fullest development of a knowledge-based economy has propelled a vivid academic debate — encouraged and summoned by national political establishments — over how to better harness its potential in order to gain competitive advantages and best compete in the global economy arena.
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Dakka, F. (2015). Differentiation without Diversity: The Political Economy of Higher Education Transformation. In: Huisman, J., de Boer, H., Dill, D.D., Souto-Otero, M. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Higher Education Policy and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-45617-5_18
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