基本説明
Explores the new and emerging ways by which organizational theories address major contemporary concerns in higher education.
Full Description
Colleges and universities are best understood as networks of departments working together to fulfill a mission of education, innovation, and community partnership. To better understand how these large and complex institutions function, scholars can apply organizational and strategic planning concepts made familiar by business management. This book follows that model and explores the new and emerging ways by which organizational theories address major contemporary concerns in higher education. The contributors to this volume are both influenced and inspired by the pioneering work of Marvin Peterson and his four-decade career researching higher education organization. Comprising a serious re-examination of the field, the essays review past and current thinking, address the field's core theoretical traditions, and pursue exciting new lines of inquiry, including the organizational dynamics of diversity and social movement organizations. Ideal for courses in administration and theory, this book reinvigorates the study of higher education as an organization and encourages scholars to rediscover the value of organizational principles in all areas of higher education research.
Contributors include: Michael N. Bastedo, University of Michigan; Patricia J. Gumport, Stanford University; James C. Hearn, University of Georgia; Adrianna Kezar, University of Southern California; Jason Lane, State University of New York at Albany; Simon Marginson, University of Melbourne; Michael K. McLendon, Vanderbilt University; Anna Neumann, Columbia University; Brian Pusser, University of Virginia; Fabio Rojas, Indiana University; Daryl G. Smith, Claremont Graduate University; William G. Tierney, University of Southern California; and the late J. Douglas Toma, University of Georgia.
Contents
Part I: Reviewing the Field
Chapter 1.Organizing Higher Education: A Manifesto
Chapter 2. Strategic Thinking in Higher Education Research
Part II: Reinvigorating Core Literatures
Chapter 3. Governance Research: From Adolesence toward Maturity
Chapter 4. The Elephant in the Room: Power, Politics, and Global Rankings in Higher Education
Chapter 5. Institutional Strategy: Positioning for Prestige
Chapter 6. Cretivity and Organizational Culture
Chapter 7. Organizational Change in a Global, Postmodern World
Part III: New Lines of Inquiry
Chapter 8. Diversity: A Bridge to the Future?
Chapter 9. Social Movements and the University
Chapter 10. Agency Theory in Higher Education Organizations
Chapter 11. Organizational Cognition in Higher Education
Part IV: Reconstructing Theory
Chapter 12. Building Theories: Using Sticky Social Mechanisms to Understand and Improve Educational Work
Contributors
Index
