ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is two-fold. First, the integrative analysis of the cases responds to three research questions formulated at the beginning of the inquiry. Namely, what changes occurred in the structure of economics as an academic field when it was adapted to the Russian context? What material and symbolic organizational processes occurred inside universities adapting economics, and who were the main stakeholders of change? What actors in the external environment did the universities engage in the process of adapting economics and how? Answers to these questions combine individual experiences of the universities in the study to create a larger picture of the importation and adaptation of the Western academic field in Russian higher education. Second, the discussion addresses the main question of the study: how does the adaptation of economics by Russian universities add to the understanding of the travel of academic fields across national and cultural borders?
