From the Eye of the Storm Higher Education's Changing Institution

In order to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary - the third lustrum - of our Center, we at CHEPS decided to collectively write a book on the issue of how higher education institutions deal with the demand for change. Institutional change is without any doubt one of the burning issues for researchers...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jongbloed, B.W. (Editor), Maassen, P.A. (Editor), Neave, G. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1999, 1999
Edition:1st ed. 1999
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction: Organisational adaptation in higher education
  • 2 People on a bridge: Central European higher education institutions in a storm of reform
  • 3 Academic staff between threat and opportunity: Changing employment and conditions of service
  • 4 Internationalisation as a cause for innovation in higher education: A comparison between European cooperation and the Dutch cross-border cooperation programme
  • 5 Assessing institutional change at the level of the faculty: Examining faculty motivations and new degree programmes
  • 6 New study programmes at universities: Strategic adaptation versus institutional adjustment
  • 7 Budgeting at the institutional level: responding to internal pressures and external opportunities
  • 8 Marketisation, hybrid organisations and accounting in higher education
  • 9 Hey, big spender! Institutional responsiveness to student demand
  • 10 Analysis of institutions of university governance: A classification scheme applied to postwar changes in Dutch higher education
  • 11 Institutional change in doctoral education: The graduate school
  • 12 Higher education policies and institutional response in Flanders: Instrumental analysis and cultural theory
  • 13 Integrating two theoretical perspectives on organizational adaptation