Governance configurations and academic outcomes. The example of Ph.D. education.

Autor/inn/en	Schneider, Peter; Sadowski, Dieter
Institution	Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in der Europäischen Gemeinschaft (Trier)
Titel	Governance configurations and academic outcomes. The example of Ph.D. education. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Governance-Konfigurationen und akademische Ergebnisse. Das Beispiel der geisteswissenschaftlichen Promotion.
Quelle	Trier (2010), 36 S.; 437 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IAAEG Discussion paper. 01/2010
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Selbstverwaltung; Management; Ressource; Wettbewerb; Promotion; Geisteswissenschaften; Hochschule; Arbeitspapier; Hierarchie; Regulation; Hochschulabsolvent; Öffentliche Verwaltung; Europa; USA
Abstract	"In many European countries efforts are undertaken to improve doctoral education. In the context of new public governance in the Higher Education sector, less state, more competition, less academic self-governance, more internal hierarchy and more influence by external stakeholders under the common roof of New Public Management (NPM) are considered most promising for successful PhD education. Therefore according to a steering model of American research universities many initiatives are undertaken to introduce more managerial elements in European university departments. Based on an explorative analysis of qualitative and quantitative data of 26 continental European, English and American economics departments, we investigate the steering effects of the five above mentioned governance dimensions in the years 2001 to 2002 on subsequent placement success of PhD graduates. To control the impact of resources on PhD education, next to governance regimes we added four different resource conditions to the analysis: financial resources, publication record of the department, total number of professors in a department and annual number of PhD graduates in a department, Using fuzzy-set QCA to analyze the data, our results deliver strong support for local best ways of steering configurations and no superiority of one system over the other. Introducing market elements though seems to be important in any governance system but only in combination with different co-conditions. In respect to our control conditions only financial resources contribute considerably to the understanding of steering PhD education. Our results strengthen the strong impact of competition as an effective governance instrument and take into account the relevance of financial resources." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch; empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch-qualitativ; Exploration. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 2001 bis 2002. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2010/3