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Publication date: 13 May 2014

Bjørn Stensaker, Nicoline Frølich, Jeroen Huisman, Erica Waagene, Lisa Scordato and Paulo Pimentel Bótas

– The purpose of this paper is to identify those factors that key actors in university governance hold as to be important in realizing strategic change within their institutions.

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to identify those factors that key actors in university governance hold as to be important in realizing strategic change within their institutions.

Design/methodology/approach

Key decision-makers in 26 European universities were surveyed on their views on which factors bring about strategic change. The results were interpreted using a theoretical framework emphasizing organizational archetypes and their development.

Findings

The findings indicated that strategic changes in universities were perceived as highly dependent on leadership, decision-making procedures, communication and evaluation. However, some differences between the universities in the sample can be identified, supporting indicating the relevance of using organizational archetypes as an analytical tools for observing change within the higher education sector.

Originality/value

The study links organizational level developments on strategic management to macro-level change within the European higher education landscape, and provides new insights intoon the debate on convergence and differentiation in organizational fields.

Details

Journal of Strategy and Management, vol. 7 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1755-425X

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