Building Cross-border Joint Universities in China: A Study of Organizational Dilemma

This book examines the interactions and dynamics between one cross-border joint-university and its social environment in the process of institutional transplantation and organizational adaptation. This study specifically demonstrates the interplays between the joint-university and its key players, including partners, government, market, parents, and the general public. By examining a variety of tensions between the joint-university and its key social actors, this research suggests a concept of "organizational dilemma" to capture the characteristics embedded in cross-border joint-universities in mainland China, and as an analytical model to unpack the tensions giving rise to the dilemmatic feature.

Yunyun Qin is Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Education at Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. She obtained her Doctor degree at the University of Hong Kong in 2018. Her research interests include comparative higher education, cross-border education, sociology of education, etc.