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Multi-Level Governance in Universities

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Multi-Level Governance in Universities

Multi-Level Governance in Universities: Strategy, Structure, Control
Springer | Higher Education Dynamics | July 5, 2016 | ISBN-10: 3319326767 | 284 pages | pdf | 4.86 mb

Editors: Frost, Jetta, Hattke, Fabian, Reihlen, Markus (Eds.)
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


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.

Number of Illustrations and Tables
8 b/w illustrations
Topics
Administration, Organization and Leadership
International and Comparative Education
Higher Education

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