Academic Identities in Ukrainian Research Universities under Conditions of Means-Ends Decoupling at the State Level

Autor/in	Hladchenko, Myroslava
Titel	Academic Identities in Ukrainian Research Universities under Conditions of Means-Ends Decoupling at the State Level
Quelle	In: Journal of Further and Higher Education, 44 (2020) 2, S.244-257 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-877X
DOI	10.1080/0309877X.2018.1529740
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Professional Identity; College Faculty; Research Universities; Global Approach; Cultural Influences; Social Theories; Identification (Psychology); Politics of Education; Higher Education; Educational History; Academic Degrees; Doctoral Degrees; Humanities; Social Sciences; Engineering; Professional Personnel; Barriers; Ukraine + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Fakultät; Forschungseinrichtung; Globales Denken; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Gesellschaftstheorie; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Degree; Degrees; Academic level graduation; Akademischer Grad; Hochschulabschluss; Doctoral degree; Doktorgrad; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Maschinenbau; Personalbestand
Abstract	The article explores academic identities in Ukrainian research universities whilst means-ends decoupling takes place at the state level. The latter term implies that the practices of state policies are disconnected from the state's core goal of creating public welfare. Such means-ends decoupling occurs in oligarchic economies, Ukraine being one. Data for research were collected through semi-structured interviews with 38 academics from the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences affiliated with 2 Ukrainian research universities. The findings reveal that while institutional complexity caused by means-ends decoupling at the state level results in means-ends decoupling at the organisational level which leads to cultural complexity, both institutional and cultural complexities experienced by academics trigger them to sustain means-ends decoupling at the individual level. As a consequence, academics are able neither to adopt practices/roles prescribed by the organisational identities of the global model of the research university nor to attain synergy among them. The greater means-ends decoupling at the individual level implies a larger gap between constructed academic identities and identities prescribed by the global model of the research university. The greater awareness of academics about their practices being either loosely related or not related at all to their core goal (aspirational identity) and the larger number of practices which they compartmentalise the greater the dissonance they experience. As means-ends decoupling at all the aforementioned levels implies a severe diversion of human intellectual capital in Ukraine, it entails grave consequences for the Ukrainian society and economy. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01