The University as a Business [electronic resource] /
York-Mannheim SymposiumCorporate Author
York-Mannheim Symposium(10th :2007 :Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt)
York-Mannheim Symposium
Saliterer, Iris.editor.
Rondo-Brovetto, Paolo.editor.
Worldwide, universities have recently been the object of large reform processes, facing strong pressure not only from their institutional environment to offer new programs and to adopt new governance and management systems to keep up with the growing competition in the higher education sector but also because of calls for an increase in the efficiency and effectiveness of academic institutions. The authors discuss the introduction of managerial approaches of university governance and the effects on the challenges and threats to treat universities like private for-profit businesses. The book is valuable reading for researchers and managers in the field of university governance.
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Content; Foreword; The University in the Modern Marketplace; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Issue; 1.2 A Caution and a Qualification; 1.3 Outline; 2 The Basic Change in Funding; 3 Students as Customers; 4 The Limits of Efficiency; 5 The University and Management Concepts; 5.1 Other Observations; 6 The University as a Social Critic; 7 The Danger of Bias in Research; 7.1 Commercialization of Research; 8 The Limitation of Academic Choice; 9 The Evaluation of the University; 10 Education for What?; 11 Conclusions; Why Universities are not Businesses; 1 Abstract; 2 Definition of businesses
3 Morphology of academic services4 Universities as non-business institutions; 5 The inappropriateness of business management; 6 The challenge of reinventing university; Literature; Determinants for University Excellence; 1 Abstract; 2 Brand and university; 3 Three kinds of universities; 4 Three kinds of publicity; 5 Setting goals and developing strategies; 6 Setting up performance centres; The University Business in Transition: Of Stars, Cash Cows and Dogs; 1 Introduction; 2 From a Humble Beginning; 3 In Search of the Business of the University
4 What should be the Business of the University in the future?4.1 The BCG Matrix as a framework; 5 Concluding Remarks; Literature; "Improved" Accounting for Universities?; 1 Abstract; 2 Introduction; 3 Background; 4 Data; 5 Analysis; 6 Transparency; 7 Conclusions; Demographic Change as a Challenge to Human Resources Development; 1 Abstract; 2 Introduction; 3 Demographic change and consequences for the labour market; 4 Consequences for human resources development policies; 5 Consequences for universities as providers of tertiary education; Summary and Directions for further research
LiteratureIntellectual capital steering in universities - realizing an external/internal governance fit?; 1 Abstract; 2 Introduction; 3 Reforms in the Austrian higher education sector; 3.1 Starting Point of the University Reform; 3.2 Elements of the latest higher education reforms; 4 Managing for performance - university funding systems and their impact on research and teaching; 4.1 First of all - the accountability and transparency challenge; 4.2 Performance-informed contracting and funding-the macro level; 4.3 Budgeting for performance - the meso-levels
4.4 Paying for performance - micro-levels5 Conclusion; Literature; The University as a Business?; 1 Abstract; 2 Clarification of the key concepts: university and business; 3 Similarities and differences; 4 Two types of universities: mind versus business; 5 Division of labour and commodification; 6 The answer to the question posed by the heading; Literature; Managing the University of Botswana; 1 Abstract; 2 Introduction; 3 Global Trends in Managing Higher Education; 4 The Transformation of the University of Botswana; 4.1 Reduced State Funding; 4.2 Strategic Planning
4.3 Centres of Academic Excellence
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Worldwide, universities have recently been the object of large reform processes, facing strong pressure not only from their institutional environment to offer new programs and to adopt new governance and management systems to keep up with the growing competition in the higher education sector but also because of calls for an increase in the efficiency and effectiveness of academic institutions. The authors discuss the introduction of managerial approaches of university governance and the effects on the challenges and threats to treat universities like private for-profit businesses. The book is valuable reading for researchers and managers in the field of university governance.
Political science.
Political Science.