Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Modes of coordination
Academics: professional
coordination
Country A
Country B
Country A1
State control: strong authority of state bureaucracy and a strong position of the
academic oligarchy / state regulates access conditions, the curriculum, degree
requirements, examination systems, appointments of staff, etc / professional
autonomy
VERSUS
(State) regulation
Stakeholder guidance
Academic self-governance
Managerial self-governance
Competition for scarce resources
(State) regulation:
concerns top down authority vested in the state; regulation by
detailed directives
Stakeholder guidance:
Directing universities through goal setting without prescribing
how goals must be achieved; goal setting by the state and
external stakeholders
Academic self-governance:
Collegial decision making in universities and peer review based
self-steering
Managerial self-governance:
Universities as corporate actors; institutional leadership affects
agenda setting and strategic decision making
Competition for scarce resources:
Allocating of services through market-based mechanisms
Governance equalizer
high
low
Governance equalizer:
NPM ideal-type
high
low
Governance equalizer:
Changes in HE
high
low
4 countries compared
Corporate-pluralist model
several competing and legitimate centers of authority and control
stakeholders voice their interests
Negotiating, consultancy, alliances / absolute power of parliament limited
Traditionally:
Professional bureaucracies: dependence of professionals and
their expert knowledge to perform specialized work
Professionals have high degree of autonomy and often a
monopoly of their working area
Hierarchy-based leadership not accepted; professional
leadership as a comprise between hierarchy and competence
Development of own internal control and collegial supervision
Professionals and the
consequences of the reforms
Efficiency Quality
Literature on academic values and identity may provide you some of the
answers. It is important to underline the differences among academic
disciplines (work routines; belief systems; norms and values)