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Fresh from the press: Buenstorf, G., Hottenrott, H., Kosmützky, A. et al. Analyzing Constellations of Multiple Competition in Science and Higher Education. Minerva (2025).
The term “multiple competition” describes the simultaneous embeddedness of universities as organizations, researchers as individual actors, and state actors in various, nested, and interdependent competitions. Individual and collective actors compete in various—often interconnected—ways for limited symbolic and material resources such as attention, reputation, ranking positions, research grants, high-quality publications, personnel, and jobs. Moreover, the many competitions that individual scholars, universities, and government organizations encounter could strengthen one another. The authors propose a new conceptual framework for analyzing the constellations of multiple competition in science and higher education, using theoretical resources from sociology and economics. They illustrate the added value of this conceptualization for empirical studies using examples from various academic systems.