Universities in Change: Managing Higher Education Institutions in the Age of Globalization

✍ Scribed by Andreas Altmann, Bernd Ebersberger (auth.), Andreas Altmann, Bernd Ebersberger (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 369
• Series: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Universities find themselves in dynamic change. They are confronted with growing expectations from their stakeholders, increasing international competition, and new technological challenges. Featuring insights and in-depth case studies from leading researchers and university decision makers from around the world, this book argues that institutions of higher education, in order to be successful, have to actively reflect on circumstances, visions, and strategies to master the future.

Drawing from their experiences across a diverse array of institutions in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, the authors explore the pressures on today’s universities and the opportunities for excelling in the contest for resources. They discuss operational issues, such as strategic management, IT governance, leadership development, and entrepreneurial culture, and broader concerns, such as the roles and responsibilities of universities in promoting technology transfer and economic and social development. The result is a resource that not only reveals and analyzes universities from an organizational perspective, but presents best practice models and concrete inspiration for management and policymaking.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Universities in Change: As a Brief Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Leading the Entrepreneurial University: Meeting the Entrepreneurial Development Needs of Higher Education Institutions....Pages 9-45
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Reinventing Learning and Research in the Twenty-First Century via the Academic Firm and the Entrepreneurial University....Pages 49-58
Demographic Trends and the Internationalisation of Higher Education: Emerging Challenges and Prospects....Pages 59-74
Global Learning in American Higher Education: Strategies for Developing Global Citizens in an Era of Complex Interdependence....Pages 75-86
Universities Between Politics and Economics: Autonomy, Performance Agreements and Global Budgets at Austrian Universities....Pages 87-116
Who is Leading Whom, Where to, What for: And How? Governance and Empowerment in the University of the Twenty-First Century....Pages 117-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Learning From the Best: Implications From Successful Companies for Higher Education Management....Pages 137-154
Managing and Positioning of a Private Business School in Germany....Pages 155-170
Strategic Management for Growing Business Schools....Pages 171-199
Training Researchers in the Asia-Pacific: A Regional Response to Global Leadership in Research....Pages 201-216
The Rejuvenation of a Professional School in the United States....Pages 217-227
Curriculum Change at a Japanese Private International University: The Influence of Global and Local Pressures on the ‘NEW’ Challenge....Pages 229-240
Leading-Edge Technologies and Facility for Competitive Higher Business Education....Pages 241-264
Leveraging Universities Through IT Governance....Pages 265-275
Achieving Success Through Quality: The Role of Accreditation and Continuous Improvement in Management Education....Pages 277-291
Uniformity is No Virtue....Pages 293-308
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Higher Education Institutions and Regional Development....Pages 311-321
What Type of Companies Benefits from University Spillovers?....Pages 323-337
Globalization, Regional Development, and the Evolving Local University Role: The Case of Vestfold, Norway....Pages 339-359
Back Matter....Pages 361-369

✦ Subjects

Management/Business for Professionals; Higher Education; Administration, Organization and Leadership