Does It Really Matter? Assessing the Performance Effects of Changes in Leadership and Management Structures in Nordic Higher Education

作者: Kirsi Pulkkinen , Timo Aarrevaara , Laila Nordstrand Berg , Lars Geschwind , Hanne Foss Hansen

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11738-2_1

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摘要: Universities are public organisations, which operate in a highly institutionalised environment. They heavily dependent on resources. As such, universities susceptible to shifts governance arrangements but also far from being passive recipients of reform agendas. face demands multiple internal constituencies (academics, administrators, students, managers) and variety external stakeholders. This chapter explores the interplay between resulting policy university dynamics. It sets stage for book, asking following research questions: (1) what characterises changes regimes Nordic last decade half, (2) effects have these had evolution higher education systems? The takes comparative approach identifies similarities differences across countries. serves as frame reference book includes common methods data section.