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This chapter offers some introductory comments on the organization of academic work, the beliefs of the academy, the drivers, and contemporary discourse on higher education governance and management. The aim is to establish the context for the subsequent chapters and to anticipate some of the major themes emerging from the analysis of the CAP survey in each country. The chapter proposes as a working hypothesis that, where governance is shared between institutional managers and academics themselves, faculty are more likely to report that the management of their university is consultative and feel they have primary influence over decisions on academic matters; such perceptions may lead to greater personal affiliation of academics to their institution and higher levels of overall satisfaction with their current job and the academic career in general. The chapter also explains the logic for the book’s organization.
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Cummings, W.K., Fisher, D., Locke, W. (2011). Introduction. In: Locke, W., Cummings, W., Fisher, D. (eds) Changing Governance and Management in Higher Education. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1140-2_1
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