Full Description
For the last two decades, Danish universities have felt the impact of the international trend towards implementation of new public management. The results are seen in the implementation of new hierarchical governance structures and contractual governance system including market based quantitative measurement systems for resource allocation and performance evaluation. Compared to other countries the changes in performance measurements and governance of the Danish universities are radical and the Danish Minister of Science heralded them as 'the greatest change in university management since the founding of Copenhagen University in 1479'. The changes took place with surprisingly little resistance from university scholars. The contributions in this anthology investigate the origins and rationales for the silent managerial revolution of Danish universities and the radical implications for the identity of researchers, university management, and the universities themselves. The volume includes a comparative study of university governance in the UK and Denmark.
Contents
CONTENTS Introduction: University Performance Management at Danish Universities Jens Erik Kristensen, Hanne NA rreklit and Morten RaffnsA e-MA ller PART ONE: CHANGES IN IDEAS AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXTS AT UNIVERSITIES 1. Classical and New Ideas of a University: In the Light of Recent University Reforms and Performance Management by Jens Erik Kristensen 2. Aims and Formats for performance measurement at the Danish Universities: Battles over Performance Regimes and Procedures by Morten RaffnsA e-MA ller 3. Markets, Managerialism, and Measurement: Organisational Transformations of Universities in UK and Denmark by Susan Wright and Rebecca Boden PART TWO: STUDIES OF UNIVERSITY PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES 4. The Construction of the Researcher in the Context of Performance Evaluation by Nikolaj Kure, Hanne NA rreklit, Philipp Schroder and Mai Linneberg 5. Performance measurement of Research Activities by Morten Jakobsen, Tina Jensen and Margit Malmmose Peyton 6. Business School Rankings: What is the Score? by Mai Linneberg, Philipp Schroder, Hanne NA rreklit and Nikolaj Kure 7. The CSR Discourses of Higher Education Institutions on the Web: Stakeholder Orientation and Market Performance by Anne Ellerup Nielsen and Christa Thomsen 8. Timing Students' Freedom: On Paradoxes of Accountability and Efficiency by Gritt B. Nielsen About the authors
