Who's Dean Today? Acting and Interim Management as Paradoxes of the Contemporary University

Autor/inn/en	McWilliam, Erica; Bridgstock, Ruth; Lawson, Alan; Evans, Terry; Taylor, Peter
Titel	Who's Dean Today? Acting and Interim Management as Paradoxes of the Contemporary University
Quelle	In: Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 30 (2008) 3, S.297-307 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-080X
Schlagwörter	Research Methodology; Governance; Foreign Countries; Administrators; Universities; College Administration; Organizational Culture; Qualitative Research; Leadership; Risk Management; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Research method; Forschungsmethode; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Ausland; University; Universität; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Unternehmenskultur; Qualitative Forschung; Führung; Führungsposition; Risikomanagement; Australien
Abstract	Interim, discontinuous or "acting" management is an increasingly ubiquitous feature of universities. This paper asks: What are the implications of this for good academic governance? Should we understand this managerial dance as a symptom of the collapse of good managerial order or, by contrast, as a symptom of the robustness and flexibility of the organisational culture of the university? Or both? This paper answers "all of the above" to these questions. It reaches that conclusion by examining relevant literature, theorising a methodology for reading the field of interim management, and by applying this theorising to an analysis of qualitative data collected as part of a national collaborative research project conducted in Australia. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10