Attractive Carrots, Bland Sticks: Organizational Responses to Regulatory Policy in Argentine Graduate Education

Autor/in	Salto, Dante J.
Titel	Attractive Carrots, Bland Sticks: Organizational Responses to Regulatory Policy in Argentine Graduate Education
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 43 (2018) 11, S.2020-2032 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Salto, Dante J.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2017.1301415
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Graduate Study; Quality Assurance; Educational Policy; Accreditation (Institutions); Compliance (Legal); Responses; Higher Education; Incentives; Sanctions; Agency Role; Argentina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Qualitätssicherung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Accreditation; Institution; Institutions; Akkreditierung; Staatliche Anerkennung; Institut; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Anreiz; Sanction; Sanktion; Argentinien
Abstract	Most countries, developing as well as developed, have adopted some type of quality assurance mechanism. Argentina is neither an island nor an outlier in higher education reforms in general. This study is based on case study design and involved extensive fieldwork to collect interviews and official documents. This article analyzes the regulatory framework that established compulsory accreditation by identifying the main actors involved, the external factors that affect compliance, and university and program responses to them. The findings show that the regulatory framework is plagued by issues of coordination and overlap among agencies, affecting levels of compliance and types of responses at the organizational level. While the structure of incentives is clear, there are no clear sanctions or credible threats. Yet, programs tend to comply with accreditation. The study shows great variability among academic disciplines and types of programs. Findings are linked to developments in other developed and developing countries. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01