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Worldwide, universities have recently been the object of large reform processes, facing strong pressure not only from their institutional environment to offer new programs and to adopt new governance and management systems to keep up with the growing competition in the higher education sector but also because of calls for an increase in the efficiency and effectiveness of academic institutions. The authors discuss the introduction of managerial approaches of university governance and the effects on the challenges and threats to treat universities like private for-profit businesses.
The book is valuable reading for researchers and managers in the field of university governance.
List of contents
Aus dem Inhalt:
The University in the Modern Marketplace - Why Universities are not Businesses - Determinants for University Excellence - The University Business in Transition: Of Stars, Cash Cows and Dogs - "Improved" Accounting for Universities? - Demographic Change as a Challenge to Human Resources Development - Governance, Ethics and Motivation in 'Modern' Universities - Pay for Performance in Universities: Always recommended? - The University as a Business? - Managing the University of Botswana - An Examination of the Major Challenges Impacting University Delivered Executive Education
About the author
Dr. Paolo Rondo-Brovetto is Professor of Public Management at the Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt, Austria.
Dr. Iris Saliterer is an Assistant Professor of Public Management at the Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Her current research activities deal with contemporary topics in governance
and public management.
Summary
Worldwide, universities have recently been the object of large reform processes, facing strong pressure not only from their institutional environment to offer new programs and to adopt new governance and management systems to keep up with the growing competition in the higher education sector but also because of calls for an increase in the efficiency and effectiveness of academic institutions. The authors discuss the introduction of managerial approaches of university governance and the effects on the challenges and threats to treat universities like private for-profit businesses.
Foreword
International Symposium on Public Sector Management
