The article introduces this special issue of Higher Education Quarterly in which results of a research project on 'European Flagship Universities: Balancing Academic Excellence and Socio-economic Relevance' are presented and discussed. The Flagship project aimed at contributing to a better understanding of the relationship between university reform agendas, with their underlying ideologies, and university practices, especially at the departmental level. The project focused on how selected Flagship universities in continental Europe interpret and use their institutional autonomy in two areas, research management and personnel policies. For this purpose an analytical framework was developed for studying how autonomy is interpreted and used inside the university.

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欧洲旗舰大学：自主与变革

本文介绍了《高等教育季刊》的这一特刊，其中介绍和讨论了“欧洲旗舰大学：平衡学术卓越和社会经济相关性”的研究项目的结果。旗舰项目旨在帮助更好地理解大学改革议程及其基本意识形态与大学实践之间的关系，尤其是在部门层面。该项目侧重于欧洲大陆选定的旗舰大学如何在研究管理和人事政策两个领域解释和使用其机构自主权。为此，开发了一个分析框架，用于研究在大学内部如何解释和使用自治。