Multi-Level Governance in Universities: Strategy, Structure, Control

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMulti-Level Governance in Universities : Strategy, Structure, Control
EditorsJetta Frost, Fabian Hattke, Markus Reihlen
Number of pages15
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer Schweiz
Publication date2016
Pages1-15
ISBN (print)978-3-319-32676-4
ISBN (electronic)978-3-319-32678-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

    Research areas

  • Management studies - Organizational Commitment, High Education System, High Education Research, Academic Entrepreneurialism, Meso Level

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  3. Verantwortung und Umweltverhalten
  4. Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo - 2009
  5. The Global Perspective of Education for Sustainable Development: Which key competencies do persons need for thinking and acting globally in the world society?
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  7. Mathematics teacher students´ use of instructional videos.
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  9. Mathematisches Kolloquium - 2006
  10. Open Innovation Mindset and School Leadership: How Innovations can be successfully implemented at schools
  11. 13th Annual Conference of the Association for Public Economic Theory - PET12
  12. Lehrerfortbildung 2012
  13. Tracing Bergson. Perspectives on Life and the Sciences
  14. Nanomeasure 2013
  15. Statistische Woche - 2013
  16. Arts and culture as urban development tool: a comparative study in Baltimore and Hamburg
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  19. IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference - EDUCON 2012
  20. European Group for Organizational Studies (Externe Organisation)
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  22. 6th International Pragmatics Conference - IPrA 1998
  23. 6th Wulkow Meeting of Directors of Language Centres in Higher Education in Europe
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