Introduction / Ragnvald Kalleberg -- Learning academic labor / Patricia J. Gumport -- Early and late adoption of knowledge products: strategic or institutional behavior? / Jeroen Huisman and Eric Beerkens -- The specificity of American higher education / Craig Calhoun -- Analyzing organizational change in higher education / ôse Gornitzka and Peter Maassen -- Policy regimes and policy change: comparing higher education reform policy in three European countries / Ivar Bleiklie -- Governmental steering and innovations in university curricula / Ineke Jenniskens -- Pushing universities to market their products: redefinitions of academic activities in Finland / Marja Häyrinen-Alestalo, Karoliina Snell, and Ulla Peltola -- Review symposium on Burton Clark's Places of inquiry -- Places of inquiry: research and advanced education in modern universities / Burton R. Clark -- Universities: complex bundle institutions and the projects of enlightenment / Ragnvald Kalleberg -- Research and the making of frames / Guy Neave -- Comments on the review essays by Ragnvald Kalleberg and Guy Neave / Burton R. Clark.