Managing universities : policy and organizational change from a Western European comparative perspective
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Managing universities : policy and organizational change from a Western European comparative perspective
(Palgrave studies in global higher education)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book asks how modern universities are organized and managed, and questions whether 30 years of university reforms have resulted in stronger managerial structures and leadership control. It further asks whether current organisational and decision-making structures can be explained by public reform policies. The book offers a coherent, empirically grounded and theoretically driven presentation of data and core ideas behind a large scale comparative study of 26 universities across eight European countries. It focuses on the strength of university managerial structures, the role of academics, and how universities relate to and depend on their environment: to governments and other actors; to funders; to evaluators; and to external stakeholders. It further explores how higher education policies are shaped by and affect universities. Written by a cross-disciplinary team of European scholars, this book is unique both in its wide coverage and the depth of its analyses. It will be of great interest to scholars, graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the fields of organisation theory and sociology, policy studies, comparative public policy and administration, and higher education studies. It will also be of interest to higher education policy makers and administrators.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1. Setting the Stage: Theory and Research Questions
- Ivar Bleiklie, Jurgen Enders and Benedetto Lepori.- Chapter 2. A Sociological Experiment on Methodological Design: Strengths and Limits of a Pragmatist Approach to Research Methods in the TRUE Project
- Benedetto Lepori.- Chapter 3. Working in the Shadow of Hierarchy: Organisational Autonomy and Venues of External Influence in European Universities
- Harry de Boer and Jurgen Enders.- Chapter 4. Budgeting Practices in European Universities
- Marco Seeber and Benedetto Lepori.- Chapter 5. The Transformative Power of Evaluation on University Governance
- Emanuela Reale and Giulio Marini.- Chapter 6. University Governance: Organisational Centralisation and Engagement in European Universities
- Ivar Bleiklie, Svein Michelsen, Georg Krucken and Nicoline Frolich.- Chapter 7. Understanding Strategy Practices in Universities
- Nicoline Frolich, Bjorn Stensaker and Jeroen Huisman.- Chapter 8. Four 'I's Configuring European Higher Education Governance
- Amelia Veiga and Antonio Magalhaes.- Chapter 9. Politico-Administrative Structures and University Policies
- Ivar Bleiklie and Svein Michelsen.- Chapter 10. Actor Constellations and Policy Making
- Ivar Bleiklie, Svein Michelsen, Mary Henkel and Emanuela Reale.- Chapter 11. Policy Instruments in European Universities: Implementation of Higher Education Policies
- Gigliola Mathisen Nyhagen, Ivar Bleiklie and Kristin Hope.- Chapter 12. Organisational Configurations of Modern Universities, Institutional Logics and Public Policies: Towards an Integrative Framework
- Ivar Bleiklie, Jurgen Enders and Benedetto Lepori.
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