Universities as Agencies
ISBN:
978-3-319-92712-1
Auflage:
1st ed. 2019
Verlag:
Springer International Publishing
Land des Verlags:
Schweiz
Erscheinungsdatum:
20.08.2018
Herausgeber:
Reihe:
Public Sector Organizations
Format:
Hardcover
Seitenanzahl:
278
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This book discusses how modern universities increasingly use reputation management in relation to internal and external challenges. Universities are increasingly characterized by social embeddedness, relating to many external stakeholders and international markets of students, researchers and research projects. This implies global pressure to standardize, formalize and rationalize their internal organization. The book uses data from China, Norway and US to show how reputation symbols are used and balanced, based on their web pages. Further, it uses extensive data from US universities to show how their internal organization structure is developing over time, related to three types of units/positions - development, diversity and legal offices and roles.
Schlagwörter
comparative analysis
universities
divergence
formalization
rationalization
social embeddedness
nordic universities
academic league tables
elite universities
insitutional diversity
organizational actor
socially-embedded universities
Chinese universities
core symbols
reputation management profiles
cultural and symbolic explanations
Biografische Anmerkung
Tom Christensen is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.
Åse Gornitzka is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.
Francisco O. Ramirez is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology, Stanford University, USA.
Åse Gornitzka is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.
Francisco O. Ramirez is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology, Stanford University, USA.
