Overview
- Provides an up-to-date and integrated comparative account of merger processes involving HE institutions across the Nordic region
- Moves beyond description towards in-depth analysis of the complexities inherent to the ‘black-box’ of the implementation process
- Brings together leading social scientists based in the region with vast knowledge of the subject
- Bridges theory and practice, by providing policy makers and institutional managers with critical insights substantiated on solid empirical evidence
Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 46)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Setting the Stage
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Path Dependencies & System Dynamics
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Case Studies
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Lessons Learnt and Way Forward
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About this book
This book addresses the critical knowledge gaps of mergers involving higher education institutions. It is based on a comparative research project (spring 2013-spring 2015) investigating the phenomena of mergers involving higher education institutions across the Nordic countries – Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The study involved close to 30 scholars from the region, and aimed at shedding critical light on, and providing novel contributions around, the following key aspects:
- Conceptual and theoretical approaches – strengths and limitations - towards the study of the phenomena of mergers in higher education;
- Historical developments, leading to significant structural changes in the domestic higher education landscape, and, in turn, how mergers have been used as a policy/institutional mechanism to foster adaptation to a new external environment at the local, national, regional and international levels;
- The complex dynamicsinherent to merger processes by undertaking an in-depth investigation of a series of selected case studies, with a particular focus on the “black-box” associated with the implementation process;
- The implications of the findings as regards future policy and strategic endeavours, theory development and future research agenda.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mergers in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: The Experience from Northern Europe
Editors: Rómulo Pinheiro, Lars Geschwind, Timo Aarrevaara
Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21918-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21917-2Published: 17 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37262-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21918-9Published: 03 November 2015
Series ISSN: 1571-0378
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 236
Topics: Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics