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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author STENSAKER, Bjorn (BENNER, Mats)
Title Doomed to be entrepreneurial : institutional transformation or institutional lock-ins of "new" universities? / Bjorn Stensaker ; Mats Benner
Publication year 2013
Source/Footnote In: Minerva. - 51 (2013) 4, S. 399 - 416
Inventory number 35616
Keywords Hochschule und Staat : allgemein ; Hochschule und Wirtschaft
Abstract Universities worldwide are facing enormous strains as a result of increased external expectations where global visibility should be mixed with local and regional utility. In debates on the future of higher education, becoming an entrepreneurial university has been highlighted as a novel ? although perhaps a more hybrid ? way to deal with this challenge. However, while the label entrepreneurial points to an image of the university as a dynamic free agent shaped in the interplay between dynamic environments and internal flexibility, the current article takes a more critical view on the factors conditioning universities with the ambitions of becoming more entrepreneurial ? particularly those of more recent age and less academic standing. For these institutions it is suggested that the university ideal of being entrepreneurial may lead to a situation of strategic inertia characterized by an institutionalized ?lock-in? with few alternative development paths. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)