Overview
- Takes account of reform efforts and its effects across Nordic higher education
- Combines hard (quantitative) data with more nuanced accounts by the key actors involved with processes of change and adaptation within universities
- Contributes to both the testing and further development of theory, bringing together critical insights from public policy and administration, organizational studies and higher education studies
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About this book
This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity of system-wide (macro) and organisational (meso and micro) dimensions, namely: reform or policy initiatives; drivers, aims, instruments and actors; structural changes within universities; strategic and performance management; the rise of accountability regimes; incentive and evaluative systems; and perceived changes/effects by the key actors involved, at various levels. The volume provides critical insights to the larger phenomenon of change and adaptation within the public sector. Its findings and implications are of relevance to social science researchers, policy makers, managers/administrators, and external stakeholders.
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Keywords
- adaptation
- university governance
- strategic actorhood
- mixed methods
- external funding
- authority relations
- research freedom
- budget-maximization logic
- Nordic higher education
- policy initiatives
- reform trajectories
- domestic landscape
- historical overview
- performance-based research funding
- performance measures
- Nordic universities
- leadership
- management
- managerialism
- open access
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Setting the Stage
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Cross Cutting Themes
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Taking Stock and Moving Forward
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rómulo Pinheiro is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at the Department of Political Science and Management at the University of Agder, Norway.
Hanne Foss Hansen is Professor in Public Organisation and Administration at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Lars Geschwind is Associate Professor in Engineering Education Policy and Management at the Department of Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Kirsi Pulkkinen is a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Lapland, Finland, and Advisor of co-creation at the Research Services of University of Helsinki, Finland.
Hanne Foss Hansen is Professor in Public Organisation and Administration at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Lars Geschwind is Associate Professor in Engineering Education Policy and Management at the Department of Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Kirsi Pulkkinen is a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Lapland, Finland, and Advisor of co-creation at the Research Services of University of Helsinki, Finland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: A Comparative Account from the Nordic Countries
Editors: Rómulo Pinheiro, Lars Geschwind, Hanne Foss Hansen, Kirsi Pulkkinen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11738-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11737-5Published: 06 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11738-2Published: 17 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 326
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, European Politics, Legislative and Executive Politics, Governance and Government, Educational Policy and Politics, Administration, Organization and Leadership