The Power of Collegiality A Qualitative Analysis of University Presidents' Leadership in Germany

Nadja Bieletzki explores how university presidents lead universities. She provides insights into the upper echelons of higher education management and focuses especially on university presidents in Germany. Special attention is given to the career background of university presidents and the way they conduct reform projects. Based on the results from semi-structured expert interviews and their qualitative analysis, the author shows that university presidents do not use all their formal power although their position has been strengthened by law. This can be explained by the collegial characteristics of universities, which drive and restrict presidential actions
Nadja Bieletzki was awarded the Ulrich Teichler Prize for Excellent Dissertations 2016.

About the author

Dr. Nadja Bieletzki is coordinator of the Leibniz Center for Science and Society (LCSS) at the Leibniz University of Hannover. 

Summary

Higher Education Research and Science Studies

Product details

• Authors: Nadja Bieletzki
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 17.01.2018
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology
• EAN: 9783658204884
• ISBN: 978-3-658-20488-4
• Pages: 209
• Illustrations: XV, 209 p. 2 illus.
• Dimensions (packing): 14.8 x 1.2 x 21.2 cm
• Weight (packing): 301 g
• Series: Organization & Public Management
• Subjects: Organisationssoziologie, C, Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein, Sociology, Politik und Staat, Soziologie: Arbeit und Beruf, Economic Sociology, Soziologie / Arbeit, Wirtschaft, Technik, Forschung (naturwissenschaftlich), Soziologie / Organisationssoziologie, Politik / Soziologie, Political Sociology, Social Sciences, Politics & government, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Sociology: work & labour, Science and Technology Studies, Technology—Sociological aspects, Expertinterviews, Highereducationmanagement, Reformprojects, UniversitiesinGermany, Careerbackground