Mergers in Higher Education: The Experience from Northern Europe - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3319219170 ISBN 13 : 9783319219172

Editeur : Springer International Publishing AG, 2015

Synopsis

This book addresses the critical knowledge gaps of mergers involving higher education institutions. It is based on a comparative research project (spring 2013-spring 2015) investigating the phenomena of mergers involving higher education institutions across the Nordic countries - Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The study involved close to 30 scholars from the region, and aimed at shedding critical light on, and providing novel contributions around, the following key aspects:

• Conceptual and theoretical approaches - strengths and limitations - towards the study of the phenomena of mergers in higher education;
  
• Historical developments, leading to significant structural changes in the domestic higher education landscape, and, in turn, how mergers have been used as a policy/institutional mechanism to foster adaptation to a new external environment at the local, national, regional and international levels;
  
• The complex dynamics inherent to merger processes by undertaking an in-depth investigation of a series of selected case studies, with a particular focus on the "black-box" associated with the implementation process;
  
• The implications of the findings as regards future policy and strategic endeavours, theory development and future research agenda.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer International Publishing AG
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319219170
• ISBN 13: 9783319219172
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Éditeur: Pinheiro Rómulo, Geschwind Lars, Aarrevaara Timo
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