Overview
- Reports on research findings from a large scale comparative study of organisational characteristics of 26 universities in eight European countries
- Includes contributions from leading figures in the field of higher education
- Develops a new conceptual understanding of university organisations and their relationship with national politics and policies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education (PSGHE)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Modern Universities as Organizations
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Higher Education Politics and Policies
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“The book shows the extent to which and the ways public European universities are shaped by national political administrative regimes as well as sectoral higher education policy regimes. Thus, it provides not only very valuable empirical and conceptual insights for scholars of higher education reform, organization, administration, and management, but can offer lessons to practitioners and policy-makers in Europe as well as other regions of the world.” (Anna Kosmützky, University of Kassel, Germany)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ivar Bleiklie is Professor in the Department of Administration and Organization Theory at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Jürgen Enders is Professor of Higher Education Management in the School of Management at the University of Bath, UK.
Benedetto Lepori is Professor in the Interdisciplinary Institute of Data Science at the Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland, where he leads the Research Group on Science and Higher Education Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Managing Universities
Book Subtitle: Policy and Organizational Change from a Western European Comparative Perspective
Editors: Ivar Bleiklie, Jürgen Enders, Benedetto Lepori
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53865-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53864-8Published: 14 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85260-7Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53865-5Published: 31 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-4214
Series E-ISSN: 2662-4222
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 329
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics, Organization, Public Policy