TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Recent reforms to higher education systems in many OECD countries have focused on making universities more effective organisations in competing for resources and reputations. This has often involved increasing their internal cohesion and external autonomy from the state to make them more similar to private companies. However, pre-reform universities differed so greatly in their governance and capabilities that the impact of institutional changes has varied considerably between three ideal types: Hollow, State-chartered, and Autarkic. Furthermore, the combination of: (a) the inherent uncertainty of scientific research undertaken for publication, (b) limited managerial control over work processes and reputations, and (c) the contradictory effects of some funding and governance changes has greatly restricted the ability of universities to function as authoritatively integrated organisations capable of developing distinctive competitive competences.
VL  - 42
SN  - 978-1-78350-684-2, 978-1-78350-683-5/0733-558X
DO  - 10.1108/S0733-558X20140000042000
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20140000042000
AU  - Whitley Richard
AU  - Gläser Jochen
PY  - 2014
Y1  - 2014/01/01
TI  - The Impact of Institutional Reforms on the Nature of Universities as Organisations
T2  - Organizational Transformation and Scientific Change: The Impact of Institutional Restructuring on Universities and Intellectual Innovation
T3  - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 19
EP  - 49
Y2  - 2024/04/20
ER  -