Article ID: CBB340797550

The Perceived Impact of Eight Systemic Factors on Scientific Capital Accumulation (2020)

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In the global academic capitalist race, academics, institutions and countries’ symbolic power results from the accumulation of scientific capital. This paper relies on the perspectives of system actors located at the institutional, national and international levels to assess the perceived importance of eight systemic factors in contributing to the comparative advantage of social-democratic regimes, namely Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. A deductive thematic analysis performed on 56 transcripts and a one-way repeated-measure ANOVA (and pairwise post-hoc t-tests) performed on 324 questionnaires confirmed the hypotheses regarding the positive influence of academic traditions and internationalization. This study contributes to the development of a varieties of academic capitalism (VoAC) approach to apprehend how political-economies condition higher education systems’ (HES) comparative advantage.

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Authors & Contributors
Sörlin, Sverker
Holmberg, Niklas
Nielsen, May-Brith Ohman
Kerstin Enflo
Ancillotti, Mirko
Alvarez-Palau, Eduard J.
Concepts
Universities and colleges
Science and society
Science and politics
Science and economics
Globalization; internationalization
Research
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
18th century
Early modern
Places
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Finland
Scandinavia; Nordic countries
Arctic regions
Institutions
International Business Machines Corporation
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