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11/02/2023 | DFG-Projekt | Publikationen

New article by Buschkamp & Seidenschnur: Competition on hold? How competing discourses shape academic organisations in times of crisis

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The recent article by Leonie Buschkamp and Tim Seidenschnur in "Higher Education" deals with the question of how the Covid-19 pandemic affected discourses on competition in higher education organisations and how other discourses occurred and gained power. Additionally, it focuses on changes which take place in windows of opportunities that occur through discursive change in times of crisis.

The authors show that discourses on competition have been highly influential in the field of academia. However, the pandemic rapidly introduced or empowered new or different discourses. These discourses either replaced existing discourses on competition, ascribed different meanings or redefined the frame under which a specific discourse is important.

Buschkamp, L., Seidenschnur, T. (2023): Competition on hold? How competing discourses shape academic organisations in times of crisis. Higher Education. (Open Access)

link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-023-01130-9