Reflections on a Scientific Career: Behind the Professor's CV - Softcover

Clegg, Stewart; Strannegard, Lars; Soderholm, Anders; Holmstrom, Johnny; Warren, Samantha; Elkjaer, Bente; Rehn, Alf; Robey, Daniel; March, James G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8763003228 ISBN 13: 9788763003223

Publisher: CBS Press, 2014

Synopsis

Reflections on a Scientific Career: Behind the Professor's CV is not a traditional book about life in academia. This book offers insights on the academic careers of scientific scholars who have recently become Ph.D. It gathers professors from different disciplines, countries, and contexts, who have been brought together through a passion for research. The book offers unique reflections on their personal career experiences, providing insights as to how the academic system really works. Table of Contents: Scholars' Experiences * A Rough Guide for Post-Doctoral Researchers * Read, Write and Get It Right * Building Academic Success through Fun and Relevance * Leadership in Context: Notes on Sharing Visions as a Key for Transformational Academic Leadership * Paddling Furiously under the Surface: Micro-Strategies for the Labor of an Academic Research Career * Seize Chances, Be Courageous, and Trust Your Mentors and Intuition * From Theory Boy to Practitioners' Darling * Career Fulfillment: The Journey to Tenure and Beyond * A Scholar's Quest * From Being a New Ph.D. to Becoming a Scholar. [Subject: Academic Research, Labor Studies, Higher Education]

About this title

About the Author

Markus Hallgren is a Professor at Umea School of Business and Economics.

Edition details

• Publisher: CBS Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8763003228
• ISBN 13: 9788763003223
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140
• Editor: Hällgren Markus