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Multi-Level Governance in Universities

Strategy, Structure, Control

Jetta Frost, Fabian Hattke, Markus Reihlen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XI, 256 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-32676-4 (ISBN)

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Governing universities is a multi-level as well as a highly paradoxical endeavor. The featured studies in this book examine critically the multifaceted repercussions of changing governance logics and show how contradictory demands for scholarly peer control, market responsiveness, public policy control, and democratization create governance paradoxes. While a large body of academic literature has been focusing on the external governance of universities, this book shifts the focus on organizations' internal characteristics, thus contributing to a deeper understanding of the changing governance in universities. The book follows exigent calls for getting back to the heart of organization theory when studying organizational change and turns attention to strategies, structures, and control mechanisms as distinctive but interrelated elements of organizational designs. We take a multi-level approach to explore how universities develop strategies in order to cope with changes in their institutional environment (macro level), how universities implement these strategies in their structures and processes (meso level), and how universities design mechanisms to control the behavior of their members (micro level). As universities are highly complex knowledge-based organizations, their modus operandi, i.e. governing strategies, structures, and controls, needs to be responsive to the multiplicity of demands coming from both inside and outside the organization.

Introduction.- Multi-level Governance in Universities: Strategy, Structure, Control. Jetta Frost, Fabian Hattke, and Markus Reihlen.- Part I: Strategy.- 1 Institutional Change of European Higher Education: The Case of Post-war Germany. Markus Reihlen and Ferdinand Wenzlaff.- 2 Academic Entrepreneurialism and Changing Governance in Universities. Evidence from Empirical Studies. Marek Kwiek.- 3 Higher Education in the Knowledge Society: Miracle or Mirage? Mats Alvesson and Mats Benner.- Part II: Structure.- 1 Changing Professions? The Professionalization of Management in Universities. Marie Boitier and Anne Rivière.- 2 From Voluntary Collective Action to Organized Collaboration? The Provision of Public Goods in Pluralistic Organizations. Fabian Hattke, Steffen Blaschke, and Jetta Frost.- 3 Universities, Governance, and Business Schools. J.-C. Spender.- Part III: Control.- 1 Aligning Professional and Organizational Commitment in Universities: From Judgmental to Developmental Performance Management. Julia Weiherl and Jetta Frost.- 2 Current Developments at Higher Education Institutions and Interview-based. Recommendations to Foster Work Motivation and Work Performance. Stefanie Ringelhan, Jutta Stumpf-Wollersheim, and Isabell M. Welpe.- 3 Is it Possible to Assess Progress in Science? Isabel Bögner, Jessica Petersen, and Alfred Kieser.- Outlook.- When Professional and Organizational Logics Collide: Balancing Invisible and Visible Colleges in Institutional Complexity. Fabian Hattke, Rick Vogel, and Hendrik Woiwode.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.10.2016
Reihe/Serie	Higher Education Dynamics
Zusatzinfo	XI, 256 p. 8 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	571 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
Schlagworte	Administration, Organization and Leadership • behavioral control in universities • Education • higher education • International and Comparative Education • new university archetype • organizational strategies in university settings • paradoxical governance challenges • scientific communities and university governance • strategies of universities in higher education gov • strategies of universities in higher education governance • university governance reassesment • university structures and processes
ISBN-10	3-319-32676-7 / 3319326767
ISBN-13	978-3-319-32676-4 / 9783319326764
Zustand	Neuware