Managing Reform in Universities: The Dynamics of Culture, Identity and Organisational Change (Issues in Higher Education)

This collection, now in paperback, explores how universities are coping with the range of reforms and changes taking place across higher education today. Analyzing areas such as leadership, quality management, strategic thinking, collegiality and academic work, and from the perspective of different agents within higher education including students, academics and management, this book examines the various differences between reform attempts and the actual changes happening in universities.

ALBERTO AMARAL Professor at the University of Porto, Portugal SONIA CARDOSO Researcher at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies, Portugal DAVID D. DILL Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, Department of Public Policy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA NICOLINE FROLICH Research Professor at NIFU, Norway MARY HENKEL former Professor in the Department of Government, Brunel University, UK ANA I. MELO Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal AMY SCOTT METCALFE Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, USA GUY NEAVE Emeritus Professor at CIPES, Portugal KEIJO RASANEN Professor in the field of Organization and Management at the Aalto University School of Economics, Finland MARIA J. ROSA Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal KERSTIN SAHLIN Professor in the Department of Business Studies, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Uppsala, Sweden TAINA SAARINEN Researcher at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland