TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Historically, academic careers in many European universities have been characterized by the civil servant status of academics (i.e., an open vacancy model) based on the German Lehrstuhl (professorial chair) tradition. The chair system has been abandoned in many countries, and the status of civil servants has been changed to private employment. At the same time, many European universities have introduced some variant of the tenure track model to increase the attractiveness of academic careers at their institutions; however, open vacancy models continue to dominate academic careers in Europe. This chapter describes recent changes in academic promotion systems using case examples from tenure track models in two European countries, Finland and Austria. In conclusion, this chapter offers examples based on the best practices and challenges identified in the analyzed tenure track models.
SN  - 978-1-78756-902-7, 978-1-78756-899-0/
DO  - 10.1108/978-1-78756-899-020191009
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-899-020191009
AU  - Kivistö Jussi
AU  - Pekkola Elias
AU  - Pausits Attila
ED  - Marian Mahat
ED  - Jennifer Tatebe
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Academic Careers andPromotions in Finland and Austria: System andInstitutional Perspectives
T2  - Achieving Academic Promotion
T3  - Surviving and Thriving in Academia
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 105
EP  - 125
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -