Overview
- Advances higher education research by gathering distinguished scholars with an academic background in management and organization studies and a research interest in the dynamics of university governance
- Enriches widespread governance perspectives by shifting the focus of research from the governance of universities to the governance in universities
- Introduces an integrated view on the multiple levels of governance in universities by bridging complementary managerial practices of strategic management, organizational design, and behavior control
- Elaborates our understanding of the paradoxes in contemporary university governance theoretically and empirically
- Provides future directions to anticipate emerging changes towards new university archetypes
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 47)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Control
Keywords
- behavioral control in universities
- new university archetype
- organizational strategies in university settings
- paradoxical governance challenges
- scientific communities and university governance
- strategies of universities in higher education governance
- university governance reassesment
- university structures and processes
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multi-Level Governance in Universities
Book Subtitle: Strategy, Structure, Control
Editors: Jetta Frost, Fabian Hattke, Markus Reihlen
Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32678-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32676-4Published: 14 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81345-5Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32678-8Published: 03 June 2016
Series ISSN: 1571-0378
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 256
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, International and Comparative Education, Higher Education