Based on field research carried out over a two year period, this book describes processes of transformation that took place over a fifteen year period in five European universities. Five common features identified - described as "organizational pathways of transformation" - are highlighted and used to frame the case-study accounts. These pathways consist of: a strengthened steering core; an extended developmental periphery; a diversified funding base; a stimulated academic heartland; and an entrepreneurial culture. Taken together, these elements help universities overcome the growing imbalance between environmental demands and university capacity to respond that is now occurring in universities internationally. As universities come under greater pressure to change their traditional character and become more innovative and entrepreneurial, the successful implementation of new managerial perspectives is important if they are to succeed. Reconciling these changes with traditional academic values provide the concepts on which the case studies are based.

Creating Entrepreneurial Universities: Organizational Pathways of Transformation (Issues in Higher Education, 12)

Education & Teaching

Burton R. Clark

Higher & Continuing Education

Emerald Group Pub Ltd

A lifeline for universities meeting the challenges of the 21st century Prominent thinker Burton R. Clark addresses what can be done to ensure universities are well positioned to meet the challenges of the fastmoving world of the 21st century. This signifi- cant new volume draws on case studies of 14 proactive institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, Latin America, and Africa in the 21st century. The international coverage underpins a fully developed framework offering insight into ways of initiating and sustaining change in universities. This new conceptual framework shifts attention from transformation to sustainability rooted in a constructed steady state of change and a collegial approach to entrepreneurialism. It contains key elements necessary for universities to adapt successfully to the modern world. Essential reading for university administrators, faculty members, students, and researchers analyzing higher education, and educational policy makers worldwide, this book advocates a highly proactive approach to university change and specifies a new basis for university selfreliance.

Sustaining Change in Universities

Open University Press

A lifeline for universities meeting the challenges of the 21st century Prominent thinker Burton R. Clark addresses what can be done to ensure universities are well positioned to meet the challenges of the fastmoving world of the 21st century. This signifi- cant new volume draws on case studies of 14 proactive institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, Latin America, and Africa in the 21st century. The international coverage underpins a fully developed framework offering insight into ways of initiating and sustaining change in universities. This new conceptual framework shifts attention from transformation to sustainability rooted in a constructed steady state of change and a collegial approach to entrepreneurialism. It contains key elements necessary for universities to adapt successfully to the modern world. Essential reading for university administrators, faculty members, students, and researchers analyzing higher education, and educational policy makers worldwide, this book advocates a highly proactive approach to university change and specifies a new basis for university selfreliance.

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Creating Entrepreneurial Universities: Organizational Pathways of Transformation (Issues in Higher Education, 12)

Sustaining Change in Universities

Sustaining Change in Universities