A. Kosmützky & G. Krücken (2025): Competition and cooperation in universities and science.
Kosmützky, Anna und Krücken, Georg (2025): Konkurrenz und Kooperation in Hochschulen und Wissenschaft. Hannover: Universität Hannover (LCSS Working Paper; 20)
The authors examine the interplay of competition and cooperation at universities and in academia in the context of modern multiple competition. The term “multiple competition” refers to the multitude of actors, competitive goods and organizers of this competition as well as their complex relationships. The analysis focuses on the competition between individual scientists, universities as organizations and state actors and their interdependencies. It is argued that increasing competition between these actors leads to more and also to new forms of cooperation and thus also changes the relationship between competition and cooperation.