scholarly journals The Post-entrepreneurial University: The Case for Resilience in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 173-193
Author(s):  
Mitchell Young ◽  
Rómulo Pinheiro
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Entrepreneurial University ◽  
Loose Coupling ◽  
Resilience Thinking ◽  
New Public ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
The University ◽  
Institutional Foundations

AbstractHistorically speaking, the university has been a highly resilient organizational form; however recent pressures to become entrepreneurial threaten the institutional foundations on which that reliance is based. The chapter first provides conceptual clarity by revisiting what we argue are two distinct schools of thought on the entrepreneurial university. We show how the economic school’s conception intertwines with the rise of New Public Management (NPM) in Europe in the late 1990s and early 2000s, reframing the concept in ways that made it incompatible with resilience thinking. However, we argue that by tying back into ‘lost’ elements of sociological school’s conception, and associating them with concepts from complex systems literature (loose coupling, slack, and requisite diversity), a hybrid model which is both resilient and entrepreneurial can be achieved. We call this the post-entrepreneurial university.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial university – fashion or necessity?

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Piotr Pietrzak
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Entrepreneurial University ◽  
New Public

Stale zmniejszający się poziom finansowania publicznego, rosnąca biurokratyzacja czy umasowienie kształcenia sprawiają, że uczelnie coraz częściej działają zgodnie z logiką New Public Management (nowe zarządzanie publiczne), zaś idea uniwersytetu przedsiębiorczego staje się jednym z głównych punktów odniesienia w międzynarodowych i europejskich debatach o przyszłości szkolnictwa wyższego. Terminologia używana w biznesie coraz częściej służy do opisu działalności akademickiej. Wykorzystywane są takie pojęcia jak: „produkcja wiedzy”, „podaż usług edukacyjnych”, „rynek usług edukacyjnych”, czy „efektywność funkcjonowania szkół wyższych”. Jednocześnie część środowiska akademickiego dostrzega w dokonującej się transformacji zagrożenie dla tradycyjnego modelu uczelni, eksponującego takie wartości jak: wolność intelektualna, bezinteresowna nauka, dążenie do prawdy. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest odpowiedź na pytanie, czy uniwersytet przedsiębiorczy jest chwilową modą, czy też koniecznością wynikającą z dokonujących się przemian społeczno-gospodarczych?

scholarly journals Towards the Entrepreneurial University 2.0: Reaffirming the Responsibility of Universities in the Era of Accountability

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3073 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuiyun Liu ◽  
Peter C. van der Sijde
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Entrepreneurial University ◽  
Entrepreneurial Universities ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
Accountability Era ◽  
Comprehensive Framework ◽  
National Governments

Universities have been expected to do more to solve economic and social problems in the knowledge-based society. Many universities have tried to become more entrepreneurial in order to respond to the overloaded demands from external society. However, the notion of entrepreneurial university is still quite vague, and so this paper firstly tries to propose a comprehensive framework describing the entrepreneurial university. Facing the increasing global competition, the national governments have also push universities to do more for the society and to be accountable for their “effectiveness” and “quality”, by using the new public management techniques. However, these managerialism approaches have posed serious challenge for the development of entrepreneurial universities. In order to better balance the expectation for being entrepreneurial from the external industry and society, and the managerialism requirement from the government, this paper proposes to reassert the responsibility of universities in the accountability era, moving towards “Entrepreneurial Universities 2.0”.

scholarly journals Consolidation of new public management in nursing education: repercussions to the Unified Health System

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Renato Gatto Júnior ◽  
Cinira Magali Fortuna ◽  
Sébastien Pesce ◽  
Leandra Andréia de Sousa ◽  
Angelina Lettiere-Viana
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Health System ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
The Public ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
New Public ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze the ways in which neoliberalism has consolidated itself in the public university and in university teaching in nursing; and what interferences it has produced in the pedagogical conceptions and practices of nurse educators. Methods: this is a qualitative research based on Institutional Analysis and conducted in a public university. Results: the data produced with the nursing teachers revealed the consolidation of the New Public Management in the university teaching of the professor-nurse, which is in contradiction with the formative assumptions for the Unified Health System. Final Considerations: it is noticeable how the university and the university teaching in nursing are already impregnated by neoliberal logic. This will possibly have repercussions on the training of professionals for the Unified Health System.

scholarly journals Four ideal-type organizational responses to New Public Management reforms and some consequences

2005 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tor Hernes
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Loose Coupling ◽  
Organizational Responses ◽  
Cultural Differentiation ◽  
New Public ◽  
Unresolved Conflict

With its dual focus on service and accountability, New Public Management (NPM) accentuates the inherent tension between the logics of service and accountability respectively in local public administration. The present article explores, from an organization theory perspective, possible organizational responses to tensions created by the introduction of NPM. The article identifies four possible ideal-type organizational responses to NPM. First, paralysis, whereby unresolved conflict leads to a stand-off situation between management and staff. Second, ritualistic decoupling, in the sense of decoupling between espoused and enacted practices. Third, loose coupling between functions and individuals. Fourth, organic adaptation, whereby the tension is handled constructively through internal structural and cultural differentiation. Possible causes and consequences of each of these responses for management are discussed.

New public management and libraries: a success story or just an excuse for cost reduction

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (8/9) ◽  
pp. 477-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Düren ◽  
Ane Landøy ◽  
Jarmo Saarti
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Public ◽  
Digital Library Services ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

Purpose From the 1980s – in some parts of Europe from the 1990s – onward, the new public management (NPM) has been emerging in public organizations including libraries. Since then, there has been a need to develop strategies, to plan budgets and to implement cost and activity accounting as well as benchmarking to compare the library’s processes, costs and activities with those of other libraries. One basic idea of the NPM was to make a transition from focusing on how institutions function to product orientation, to improve the quality of library services, to develop output orientation and to act market and consumer oriented. There also was a need to change from bureaucratic and hierarchically acting organizations to a more modern flexible and lean form of management. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The aim of this paper is in the first part to describe the basic ideas of NPM, their realization in libraries and how libraries have to handle constantly reduced budgets and the risk of being closed down (especially in the “age of austerity”); the second part will show how the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Library has managed to improve its services with the NPM approach. Findings Many libraries are faced with serious financial cutbacks on the one hand and with emergent needs to (re)invest in neglected public infrastructure on the other hand. At the same time, they have to develop modern digital library services. Thus there is a need for efficiency, which is put in action via major budget cutbacks. Also many libraries have been closed down since the implementation of NPM ideas. Originality/value In this paper, the NPM tools used in the restructuring of the UEF are described and the outcome of this modern management is shown.

scholarly journals The politics of thinking and the idea of the university as a heterotopia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bregham Dalgliesh
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Informational Capitalism ◽  
New Public ◽  
The University ◽  
Idea Of The University

Drawing on struggles between academe as a place that historically harbours critique and new public management that fosters instrumental knowledge, I reimagine the university as a counter-space for thinking. Initially, I deploy the work of Scott Lash to show how informational capitalism suffocates critique. Notwithstanding, his solution of <i>Informationskritik</i> resigns itself to the monism of technoculture. I therefore turn to Jacques Derrida’s idea of the university in relation to informationalisation. To ensure its autonomy, the university is supplementary to society, yet associated by its reflexivity that is on behalf of society. Finally, I invoke Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia, which tracks the tendency of society to instil homotopic spaces of sameness. Such a blueprint of the university as a heterotopia acts as a barometer of the critical credentials of reason that is manifest in social practices. In parallel, it carries forward Derrida’s idea for it and resuscitates a space for critical thinking.

scholarly journals Could Slow Be Beautiful? Academic Counter-Spacing Within and Beyond “The Slow Swimming Club”

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Environmental Psychology ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Coping Mechanism ◽  
Conceptual Frame ◽  
New Public ◽  
Fast Pace ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This article proposes a specific form of academic counter-spacing, based on an autoethnographic account of an initiative called the “Slow Swimming Club.” The justification for this initiative is to contest what is contextualized as the pervasive fast pace of universities, driven by contemporary marketization, new public management, and neoliberalism. The proposed counter-spacing is analyzed here through a conceptual lens, inspired by recent research from the environmental psychology discipline around Attention Restorative Theory (ART), along with its central four principles. By using such a conceptual frame, it allows a way of exploring the impact beyond the personal day-to-day micro-restorative counter-spacing opportunities, such as the Slow Swimming Club (which take place outside the university space), toward counter-spacing back on campus. It thereby endeavors to explore how such counter-spacing not only reflects and disconnects through a restorative coping mechanism, but also collectively resists and challenges the fast agendas on campus.

scholarly journals Seckelmann, Margit (2018). Evaluation und Recht. Strukturen, Prozesse und Legitimationsfragen staatlicher Wissensgewinnung durch (Wissenschafts-)Evaluationen. Jus Publicum 2073. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. 685 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-16-154390-6

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2019) ◽  
pp. 236-240
Author(s):  
Oliver Schwab
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
University System ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

“Evaluation and Law“ deals with the „social construction of quality in science and the ways of coddling it legally“ (Seckelmann, 2018, S. 20). Although clearly juridical, the study is also strongly interdisciplinary reflecting insights from sociology, political and administrative sciences and evaluation research. Between the constitutional guarantee of free research and the efforts to organise universities efficiently, evaluative procedures changed the university system significantly (projectification, complexity, etc.). From a legal perspective, these procedures need to be adequate for research, and simultaneously respect the limits set by the constitution in organisational and procedural terms. This requires public bodies to conceptualize evaluative procedures ex ante in the form of an evaluation legislation defining the purpose, procedure and potential use of evaluative procedures. The study is not only dealing with evaluation in a strict sense, but with different instruments of new public management. Specifically the visible tensions at the edge of disciplinary boundaries provoke interesting insights and questions.

scholarly journals Public criminology, reflexivity and the enterprise university: Experiences of research, knowledge transfer work and co-option with police forces

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Lumsden ◽  
Jackie Goode
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
New Public ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
University Experiences ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
The University ◽  
Police Forces

This article reflects on an enterprise project which aimed to build partnerships with police forces in England. In attempting to do ‘public criminology’ we had to negotiate internal and external organizational cultures, public management and ‘audit culture’. We focus on two levels of co-option we experienced during the project, by the university and the police: (1) internal university pressures such as definitions of ‘research’ and ‘enterprise’, funding and the terms of the ‘contract’ of the project; and (2) external pressures when engaging with police that included new public management principles and ‘fast academia’. The discussion draws on data from field notes and interviews with police officers and staff.

scholarly journals Management discourse in university administrative documents in Sweden

Pragmatics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 653-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Ledin ◽  
David Machin
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Technical Management ◽  
Vision Statements ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The University

Studies in CDA have revealed the nature of the marketized language that now infuses universities and other public institutions, but there is no comprehensive study as to how this language enters the everyday practices of the university through different levels of steering documents and meetings. In this paper, taking one example from a corpus of data from a larger project on New Public Management in Sweden, we show how successively more detailed documents are created by professional administrators in order to present vision statements, that are first operationalized into strategies and then into more concrete ‘activities’ for the subject level that are related to bundles of performance indicators. These documents re-contextualize practices of teaching and research in line with marketized goals, yet do so through consistent lack of clear agency, causality and process. A number of linguistic and multimodal resources are deployed in a chain of interrelated documents legitimizing this process as one made by careful, technical, management expertise, although the result is a fragmentation of the actual interconnected processes that comprise university work.

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