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Academic Units in a Complex, Changing World

Adaptation and Resistance

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Authors:
  1. Deanna de Zilwa

    1. Fac. Education, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

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  • It explores the fabric of academic units efforts to deal with change with close attention to detail
  • Develops new conceptual frameworks on academic units adaptation and resistance to changing environments
  • Offers university executives, heads of academic units and faculty practical suggestions for dealing with environmental challenges

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. The Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Complex, Turbulent Exogenous Environments

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      Pages 3-16

    3. Research Design and Methods

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      Pages 17-27

    4. Introduction to the Empirical Findings

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      Pages 29-37

  3. The Case Studies

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      Pages 39-39
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    2. Defenders

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      Pages 41-57

    3. Prospectors

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      Pages 59-68

    4. Analysers

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      Pages 69-88

    5. Reactors/Resistants

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      Pages 89-101

  4. Conceptual and Practical Reflections

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      Pages 103-103
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    2. Discussion and Conclusions

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      Pages 105-120

    3. Exploring Conceptual and Practical Implications of This Work

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      Pages 121-149

    4. Current and Emerging Challenges

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      Pages 151-169

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 171-199
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About this book

As clocks struck midnight on the 31st December 2009 announcing the dawn of a new decade, amidst the jubilation of a new beginning we paused momentarily to re?ect on the decade that had just past. It was a dif?cult era for many people and organisations. Many were affected by war, terrorism, famine, ?re and tsunamis. First-world citizens enjoyed opportunities to relax in a technologically driven n- vana. People on streets, trains and planes from London, Tokyo to New York sported the white ear buds of iPhones as de rigueur adornments. The pace and intensity of our lives now seems to run at warp speed, we rush from appointment to appoi- ment swigging vitamin-enhanced mineral water obsessing about ?uctuations in our body mass index and the Dow Jones index in equal measure. Yet as individuals we can choose to accept or reject some of these changes. Those with suf?cient ma- rial resources can cocoon themselves in high-security fortress homes or relocate to safer, more tranquil environs, or even redesign themselves with the aid of Botox and a skilled plastic surgeon. Yet some organisations do not have the luxury of volition, they cannot choose whether to accept or reject the affects of environmental changes. A type of organisation that has found itself situated in environments that are increasingly complex and turbulent are academic units (departments, schools and faculties) in many publicly funded universities around the globe.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Fac. Education, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

    Deanna de Zilwa

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Academic Units in a Complex, Changing World

  • Book Subtitle: Adaptation and Resistance

  • Authors: Deanna de Zilwa

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9237-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9236-6Published: 29 September 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9777-2Published: 06 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9237-3Published: 17 September 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 199

  • Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Higher Education

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