Higher education institutions and digital transformation: building university…

"The growing complexity, fluidity and instability of the environment as well as changing needs are challenges that both enterprises and higher education institutions must face. Higher education institutions understand that their key product, i.e. knowledge, is a value that can and should be offered to enterprises in a desirable form as a key to innovation and development as well as the basis of…

Managing the digital university: paradigms, leadership, and organization

The reflection on university management is based on the question about the shape of universities of the future. Civic, responsible, sustainable, virtual, digital, and many other universities can be mentioned among the concepts present in the literature. All these names describe an important distinctive feature of a university, which will gain more and more importance in the future. However, giv…

Defending checks and balances in EU member states : taking stock of europe’…

This open access book deals with Article 7 TEU measures, court proceedings, financial sanctions and the EU Rule of Law Framework to protect EU values with a particular focus on checks and balances in EU Member States. It analyses substantive standards, powers, procedures as well as the consequences and implications of the various instruments. It combines the analysis of the European level, be i…

Preparing for digital disruption

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

9783030778385

Collation

xiv, 74p. : ill.

Series Title

Research for Policy

Call Number

005.8 ERI p

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