SECTION I
Changing Paradigms in Higher Education Policy
I.1.Boundary Work:Modelling Interaction between University and Society
I.2.University Autonomy and Academic Freedom
I.3.Typology of University Management Styles and State-University Relations
SECTION II
Special Case Studies
Decision-Making Structures and Human Resources Management in Finland,France,Greece,Hungary,Italy,The Netherlands,Spain and the United Kingdom
II.1.Recent University Reforms and the Accompanying Rhetoric of Change
II.2.Decision-Making Structures between Autonomy and External Control
II.2.1.The Changing "Basic Philosophy" behind Decision-Making Mechanisms
II.2.2.Restructuring Decision Making within the Universities
II.2.3.Relations between the University,Politics and Society: The Changing Meaning of Autonomy
II.3.Human Resources Management:Relations between Individual Aspirations,External Expectations and Institutional Targets
II.3.1.A Shift in the General Vision of Academic Staff
II.3.2.Staff Structures,Career Models and Selection Mechanisms: Abstract Policies and their Realisation
II.3.3.From Staff Administration to Human Resources Management:Some Indicators for Change
