Professorial pathways : academic careers in a global perspective / edited by Martin J. Finkelstein, Glen A. Jones.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the academic profession enters a new global era / Martin Finkelstein and Glen A. Jones -- Germany : unpredictable career progression but security at the top / Barbara M. Kehm -- France : marginal formal changes but noticeable evolutions / Christine Musselin -- United Kingdom : institutional autonomy and national regulation, academic freedom and managerial authority / Peter Scott -- Russia : higher education, between survival and innovation / Maria Yudkevich -- Brazil : an emerging academic market in transition / Elizabeth Balbachevsky -- India : the challenge of change / N. Jayaram -- China: the changing relationship between academics, institutions, and the state / Fengqiao Yan and Dan Mao -- Japan : opening up the academic labor market / Akiyoshi Yonezawa -- United states : a story of marketization, professional fragmentation (stratification), and declining opportunity / Martin J. Finkelstein -- Canada : decentralization, unionization, and the evolution of academic career pathways / Glen A. Jones -- Looking across systems : implications for comparative, international studies of academic work / Glen A. Jones and Martin J. Finkelstein.

"This is an edited collection, which identifies the major structural features of national higher education systems in different countries around the world and the academic markets that shape professors' academic careers. The contributors to the volume have collected data on an array of national systems and have developed approaches to categorizing systemic differences in ways that allow for multivariate analysis of large survey data sets. This book adds a comparative approach to the literature by addressing the complex relationships between national systems and academic career pathways as they adapt to globalization"-- Provided by publisher.