Managing Universities

Policy and Organizational Change from a Western European Comparative Perspective

Ivar Bleiklie, Jürgen Enders, Benedetto Lepori, Ivar Bleiklie, Jürgen Enders, Benedetto Lepori

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9783319538655
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

This book asks how modern universities are organized and managed, and questions whether 30 years of university reforms have resulted in stronger managerial structures and leadership control. It further asks whether current organisational and decision-making structures can be explained by public reform policies. The book offers a coherent, empirically grounded and theoretically driven presentation of data and core ideas behind a large scale comparative study of 26 universities across eight European countries. It focuses on the strength of university managerial structures, the role of academics, and how universities relate to and depend on their environment: to governments and other actors; to funders; to evaluators; and to external stakeholders. It further explores how higher education policies are shaped by and affect universities. Written by a cross-disciplinary team of European scholars, this book is unique both in its wide coverage and the depth of its analyses. It will be of great interest to scholars, graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the fields of organisation theory and sociology, policy studies, comparative public policy and administration, and higher education studies. It will also be of interest to higher education policy makers and administrators.

Table of contents

• Contents
• About the Editors
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Part I Theory and Approach
• Chapter 1 Setting the Stage—Theory and Research Questions
• Chapter 2 A Sociological Experiment on Methodological Design—Strengths and Limits of a Pragmatist Approach to Research Methods in the TRUE Project
• Part II Modern Universities as Organizations
• Chapter 3 Working in the Shadow of Hierarchy: Organisational Autonomy and Venues of External Influence in European Universities
• Chapter 4 Budgeting Practices in European Universities
• Chapter 5 The Transformative Power of Evaluation on University Governance
• Chapter 6 University Governance—Organisational Centralisation and Engagement in European Universities
• Chapter 7 Understanding Strategy Practices in Universities
• Part III Higher Education Politics and Policies
• Chapter 8 Four ‘I’s Configuring European Higher Education Governance
• Chapter 9 Political-Administrative Structures and University Policies
• Chapter 10 Actor Constellations and Policy Making
• Chapter 11 Policy Instruments in European Universities: Implementation of Higher Education Policies
• Part IV Conclusion
• Chapter 12 Organizational Configurations of Modern Universities, Institutional Logics and Public Policies—Towards an Integrative Framework
• Index