TY  - GEN
AB  - This article focuses on why education is a lucrative business for private sector providers. It identifies the five most common strategies that education businesses apply when selling goods or services in the education sector. In addition, this study also cursorily presents examples of how public education has networked with, reframed its mission, and built institutional structures that resemble businesses. The author proposes that the interaction of the two types of providers – public sector versus private sector – should constitute the focus of academic inquiry. Nowadays, the two sectors react to, and compete with each other. As a result, changes in one sector impacts the other. The article provides examples of boundary work and translation in the two sectors.
AU  - Steiner-Khamsi, Gita
DA  - 2018
DO  - 10.1080/09518398.2018.1449980
DO  - doi
ID  - 296886
L1  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/296886/files/Businesses_seeing_like_a_state.pdf
L2  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/296886/files/Businesses_seeing_like_a_state.pdf
L4  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/296886/files/Businesses_seeing_like_a_state.pdf
LK  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/296886/files/Businesses_seeing_like_a_state.pdf
N2  - This article focuses on why education is a lucrative business for private sector providers. It identifies the five most common strategies that education businesses apply when selling goods or services in the education sector. In addition, this study also cursorily presents examples of how public education has networked with, reframed its mission, and built institutional structures that resemble businesses. The author proposes that the interaction of the two types of providers – public sector versus private sector – should constitute the focus of academic inquiry. Nowadays, the two sectors react to, and compete with each other. As a result, changes in one sector impacts the other. The article provides examples of boundary work and translation in the two sectors.
PY  - 2018
T1  - Businesses seeing like a state, governments calculating like a business
TI  - Businesses seeing like a state, governments calculating like a business
UR  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/296886/files/Businesses_seeing_like_a_state.pdf
Y1  - 2018
ER  -