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Managing Universities: Policy and Organizational Change from a Western European Comparative Perspective - eBook

Managing Universities: Policy and Organizational Change from a Western European Comparative Perspective

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  • Authors: Ivar Bleiklie, Jürgen Enders, Benedetto Lepori
  • File Size: 2 MB
  • Format: PDF
  • Length: 329 Pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st edition
  • Publication Date: July 31, 2017
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B074GY2LWX
  • ISBN-10: 3319538659, 3319852604
  • ISBN-13: 9783319538655, 9783319538648, 9783319852607

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About The Author

Benedetto Lepori

Ivar Bleiklie

Jürgen Enders

Managing Universities (PDF) asks how trendy universities are managed and organized, and questions whether or not 30 years of college reforms have led to stronger managerial constructions and management management. Moreover, it asks whether or not present organizational and decision-making constructions will be described by public reform insurance policies. The ebook affords an empirically grounded, coherent, and theoretically pushed presentation of knowledge and core concepts behind a large-scale comparative research of 26 universities throughout eight European international locations. It emphasizes the position of lecturers, the power of college managerial constructions, and how universities relate to and depend on their setting: to governments and different actors; to evaluators; to funders; and to exterior stakeholders. It additional explores how larger training insurance policies are formed by and impression universities. Written by a cross-disciplinary group of European students, this ebook is exclusive each in its extensive protection and the knowledge of its analyses. It will probably be of nice curiosity to graduate college students, students, and superior undergraduates within the fields of group concept and sociology, comparative public coverage and administration, and larger training research. It may also be of curiosity to larger training coverage directors and makers.

Review

“A advice by way of making use of superior group concept views to educational establishments and insurance policies. The idea of universities as penetrated hierarchies affords a main software to know what has occurred in Western European international locations because the late 1900s. The ebook consists of on the similar time how universities are run inside, and how larger training public insurance policies could or could not have an effect on them administratively and strategically. Lessons to be discovered from this transition ought to draw the eye of organizational theorists, but additionally of policy-makers and practitioners working in European international locations in addition to in different areas of the world.” — Jean-Claude Thoenig, University of Paris-Dauphine, co-author of In Search of Academic Quality “The ebook Managing Universities: Policy and Organizational Change from a Western European Comparative Perspective exhibits the extent to which and the methods public European universities are formed by political and nationwide administrative regimes along with sectoral larger training coverage regimes. Thus, it affords not only very invaluable conceptual and empirical insights for students of upper training reform, group, administration, and administration, however can present classes to practitioners and policy-makers in Europe together with different areas of the world.” — Anna Kosmützky, University of Kassel, Germany

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