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Japan: Effects of Changing Governance and Management on the Academic Profession

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Japanese academics are now experiencing the institutionalization of bureaucracy in academia which was clearly recognized in 1992 by academics in western countries, confronted with considerable difficulties in maintaining academic autonomy and academic freedom. The knowledge function of universities is hard to achieve due to an emerging managerialism where the logic of a “community of enterprise” is beginning to eclipse that of a “community of knowledge.” Japanese academics complain of reduced research time, although they maintain a strong research orientation and commitment to their academic discipline to the extent that their research productivity is still ranked highest among the 18 participating countries in the 2007 CAP survey. They also complain of worsening work conditions caused by reduced funding from the national government despite a high level of GDP. Bureaucratization has strengthened the shift in governance and management from a rector to a presidential model or from a bottom-up to a top-down form, bringing about increased psychological strain among academics.

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    The author of this chapter has discussed these kinds of problems in a series of international conferences (in Hiroshima, 2008, 2009; in Jacksonville 2008, and in Turin 2009) (RIHE 2008, 2009; Arimoto 2008a, b, 2009a, c).

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Arimoto, A. (2011). Japan: Effects of Changing Governance and Management on the Academic Profession. 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_14

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