Leading Strategic Change in Higher Education: The Need for a Paradigm Shift toward Visionary Leadership

2010 ◽  
pp. 167-194 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Strategic Change ◽  
Visionary Leadership ◽  
Change In Higher Education

Factors affecting strategic change in higher education

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjørn Stensaker ◽  
Nicoline Frølich ◽  
Jeroen Huisman ◽  
Erica Waagene ◽  
Lisa Scordato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Strategic Change ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Organizational Fields ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
European Universities ◽  
Change In Higher Education ◽  
Analytical Tools

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify those factors that key actors in university governance hold as to be important in realizing strategic change within their institutions. Design/methodology/approach – Key decision-makers in 26 European universities were surveyed on their views on which factors bring about strategic change. The results were interpreted using a theoretical framework emphasizing organizational archetypes and their development. Findings – The findings indicated that strategic changes in universities were perceived as highly dependent on leadership, decision-making procedures, communication and evaluation. However, some differences between the universities in the sample can be identified, supporting indicating the relevance of using organizational archetypes as an analytical tools for observing change within the higher education sector. Originality/value – The study links organizational level developments on strategic management to macro-level change within the European higher education landscape, and provides new insights intoon the debate on convergence and differentiation in organizational fields.

Theatrology, the New Cultural Management School in Romania

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-273
Author(s):  
Ivona Tătar-Vîstraş
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Management School

Abstract We are witnessing a paradigm shift regarding the theatrologist’s position in the Romanian theatre environment. While, until recently, theatrology meant cultural journalism, this definition is no longer sufficient or attractive for secondary school graduates. Romania’s higher education offer has changed increasingly in the last years, in the attempt to keep up with the requirements of the labour market; the solution was provided by the area of cultural management. Every last faculty in this sector covers the new direction of study and research. This article seeks to investigate the existing educational offers, which should allow an understanding and a new complete image of the theatrologist in Romania; in our opinion, this image will have an increasing impact on the national theatre community, shaped, of course, by the new directions of study.

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