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Multi-Level Governance in Universities

Strategy, Structure, Control

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Editors:
  1. Jetta Frost

    1. Organization and Management, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Fabian Hattke

    1. Organization and Management, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  3. Markus Reihlen

    1. Strategic Management, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany

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  • 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
  • Elaborates our understanding of the paradoxes in contemporary university governance theoretically and empirically
  • Provides future directions to anticipate emerging changes towards new university archetypes
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 47)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Multi-Level Governance in Universities: Strategy, Structure, Control

    • Jetta Frost, Fabian Hattke, Markus Reihlen
    Pages 1-15

  5. Control

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Professional and Organizational Commitment in Universities: from Judgmental to Developmental Performance Management

      • Julia Weiherl, Jetta Frost
      Pages 173-192

    3. Current Developments at Higher Education Institutions and Interview-Based Recommendations to Foster Work Motivation and Work Performance

      • Stefanie Ringelhan, Jutta Stumpf-Wollersheim, Isabell M. Welpe
      Pages 193-214

    4. Is It Possible to Assess Progress in Science?

      • Isabel Bögner, Jessica Petersen, Alfred Kieser
      Pages 215-231
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About this book

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.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Organization and Management, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Jetta Frost, Fabian Hattke

  • Strategic Management, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany

    Markus Reihlen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multi-Level Governance in Universities

  • Book Subtitle: Strategy, Structure, Control

  • Editors: Jetta Frost, Fabian Hattke, Markus Reihlen

  • Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32678-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32676-4Published: 14 June 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81345-5Published: 30 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32678-8Published: 03 June 2016

  • Series ISSN: 1571-0378

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 256

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, International and Comparative Education, Higher Education

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