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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author STENSAKER, Bjorn (FUMASOLI, Tatiana)
Title Multi-level strategies in universities : coordination, contestation or creolisation? / Bjorn Stensaker ; Tatiana Fumasoli
Publication year 2017
Source/Footnote In: Higher education quarterly. - 71 (2017) 3, S. 263 - 273
Inventory number 45687
Keywords Hochschulreform : allgemein ; Hochschule und Staat : allgemein
Abstract In contemporary research-intensive universities, strategies are not only found at the institutional level but also at various sub-levels in the organisation. In principle, such multi-level strategies are assumed to be a means for institutional coordination in the sense that more generic strategic objectives may give room for local adaptation within the broader strategic framing. Whether or not this actually is the case is another issue, and the current article analyses the links and relations between institutional and sub-level strategies in a sample of public research universities. The findings suggest that—although introduced as integrating instruments—multi-level strategies may actually increase the complexity within the university as different strategies provide different actors with leeway for opportunistic behaviour. This has implications for the coordination of the university's organisational sub-units and for the existing governance structures. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)