This article analyses the process of reforming the governance of Danish universities from an anthropological perspective. Observers saw that the assemblage of steering concepts, tools and mechanisms in the 2003 Danish university law could be articulated in two contrary ways: one would make the university in to a ‘power force’ with ideas that exceeded the ..
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This paper takes two Chinese international branch campuses (IBCs) located in Europe as cases and uses semi-structured interviews and document analysis to clarify the motivations of establishing IBCs, the IBCs’ governance models, and their operational challenges. We find that authorities’ regulatory policies and public norms impact the decision making of Chinese universities. Universities are also ..
Under the pressure of globalization, both China and Europe have active strategies to internationalize their Higher Education systems. This paper explores the cultural and institutional constraints of these strategies in both territories, analysing their impact on the cooperation and competition among Higher Education Institutions. The paper focuses on the historical and current practices of internationalization ..
In the context of globalization, public organizations are undergoing rapid transformation, and how to govern them scientifically has become an important research topic. As a part of public organizations, university governance is an important research direction in the field of higher education, which has been widely concerned by many scholars in the world. In order ..
This paper investigates the legitimisation of shared governance in the Chinese higher education sector by applying Norman Fairclough’s three-level discourse analysis on 13 Chinese university statutes and qualitative semi-structured interviews with 22 university administrators, faculty members, students and social representatives. Two research questions of how university statute texts articulate shared governance, and how shared governance ..
The paper refers the changes of Polish Higher Education, with special attention to the changes the autonomy and governance structures, in light of historical events and challenges for the future. For many decades, the Polish system of Higher Education remained unchanged, basing on the structure and mentality built on early 20th century foundations, petrified after ..
Notions of university governance have been changing significantly in recent decades. Universities are more and more perceived as organizations of multiple stakeholders with different roles and expectations, but also with a strong responsibility for active inclusion and participation within all governance and management structures, and in decision- and policy-making. At the same time, the professionalization ..
To better specify the method through which teacher leaders are exerting in the entrepreneurial education in Chinese higher education institutions, the gender differences in entrepreneurial intentions is investigated as necessary to allocate the limited resources and thus meet students’ needs. Based on the classic Theory of Personal Behaviour, this work analyzed the extent and determinants ..
University governance is a core issue of higher education, and faculty plays a critical role in that. In a structured interview, 10 faculty members from a case university in central China elaborate their university’s governance structure and their own leadership in university governance. One distinctive feature has been revealed that there are dual authorities: political ..
Chinese Xin Wen Ke construction innovation is the integration of philosophy and social science, scientific technology, and industry, with the combination of diverse academic subjects and concentrations. Through academic orientation, resources integration, and behavioural modelling, academic leadership of university teachers can be effectively promoted, and the applicative solutions for the emerging obstacles in the process ..