Biographies and Careers throughout Academic Life

1. Biographies and Careers Throughout Academic Life: Introductory Comments
Jesús F. Galaz-Fontes, Akira Arimoto, Ulrich Teichler, John Brennan

Part I. Emerging Higher Education Systems

2. Identity Features and Working Conditions of Argentine Academics: A Comparative Study of Two Disciplinary Communities
Mercedes Leal, Sergio Robin, María A. Maidana

3. Brazilian Higher Education: Converging Trajectory Patterns in a Diverse Institutional Environment
Elizabeth Balbachevsky

4. Personal Characteristics, Career Trajectory and Job Satisfaction of Academics in Malaysia
Vincent Pang, Norzaini Azman, Morshidi Sirat, Yew Lie Koo

5. The Mexican Academic Profession Between Centuries: Who are the Actors?
Manuel Gil-Antón, Laura E. Padilla-González, Jesús F. Galaz-Fontes

6. The South African Academic Profession: Personal Characteristics, Career Trajectories, Identities and Sense of Commitment
Charl C. Wolhuter, Philip Higgs, Leonie G. Higgs

Part II. Mature Higher Education Systems

7. The Changing Academic Profession in Canada: Personal Characteristics, Career Trajectories, Sense of Identity/Commitment and Job Satisfaction
Amy Scott Metcalfe, Donald Fisher, Glen Jones, Yves Gingras, Kjell Rubenson, Iain Snee

8. In and Out of the Laboratory: Herzberg, Job Satisfaction and the Attitudes of Finnish University Academics
Timo Aarrevaara, Ian R. Dobson

9. A Portrait of the Changing Academic Profession in the Netherlands
Harry Kaap, Egbert Weert

10. Academics’ Professional Characteristics and Trajectories: The Portuguese Case
Rui Santiago, Teresa Carvalho, Sofia Branco Sousa, Diana Dias, Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor

11. Academic Inbreeding of Korean Professors: Academic Training, Networks, and their Performance
Jung Cheol Shin, Jisun Jung, Soo Jeung Lee

Part III. Comparative Studies

12. Identity of Argentine Academics: International and Compared Perspective
Martín Aiello, Cristian Pérez-Centeno

13. How Do Personal Characteristics Influence Scholarly Productivity? A Comparative Study of Chinese and American Academic Professions
Zeng Lin, Hong Shen

14. Career and Self-Understanding of Academics in Germany in Comparative Perspective
Ester Ava Höhle, Ulrich Teichler

15. Changing Academic Career Trajectories and Identity/Commitment of Academics in Japan
Akira Arimoto

16. Academic Advancement and Gender: A Comparative Analysis
William K. Cummings, Olga Bain

17. Demographics, Career and Academic Self-Understanding: A Comparative View
Jesús F. Galaz-Fontes, Akira Arimoto, Ulrich Teichler, John Brennan

Keywords: Education, Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, Personality and Social Psychology