The entrepreneurial college president
By: James L. Fisher and James V. Koch ; foreword by Gene A. Budig.
Contributors: Koch, James V., 1942-
Series: American Council on Education/Praeger series on higher education
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Westport, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: College presidents -- United States -- Attitudes -- Case studies; Education, Higher -- United States -- Finance -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "The Entrepreneurial College President is an update and extension of The Effective College President, the groundbreaking 1988 ACE Series book by Fisher, Tack, and Wheeler. In addition to discussing presidential attitudes and values, James Fisher and James Koch focus on actual presidential behavior. They have expanded their work to include much larger samples of women and minority presidents, whose numbers have increased tremendously in the past 15 years. They also include numerous control variables that reflect the character of the president's institution, and focus on the entrepreneurial attitudes and behavior of presidents, along with how these factors determine success.

They examine the extent to which academic training and reliance upon technology affect presidential success, and introduce a multivariate model that permits them to examine how a variety of factors related to presidential success influence one another and presidential behavior."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-170) and index.
Table of contents: title: The notion of the entrepreneurial leader; title: A review of relevant work; title: Matters of process : the survey and the data; title: The 713 presidents in our sample : a profile and statistical tests; title: Gender, race, and the American college presidency : statistical tests; title: The entrepreneurial president : statistical tests; title: Entrepreneurial examples : the American college presidency at the beginning of the 21st century; title: Appendix A, letter seeking nominations; title: Appendix B, effective leadership inventory; title: Appendix C, letter to nominated presidents; title: Appendix D, letter to unnominated presidents; title: Appendix E, data sources.