The Language of Leaders: Executive Sensegiving Strategies in Higher Education

Autor/in	Brown, Joshua Travis
Titel	The Language of Leaders: Executive Sensegiving Strategies in Higher Education
Quelle	In: American Journal of Education, 127 (2021) 2, S.265-302 (38 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0195-6744
DOI	10.1086/712113
Schlagwörter	College Presidents; Administrator Attitudes; Educational Strategies; Transformational Leadership; Organizational Communication; Entrepreneurship; Publications + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College president; Hochschulpräsident; Lehrstrategie; Unternehmungsgeist
Abstract	This study explores how college and university presidents strategically negotiate institutional pressures and competing social norms in an attempt to maintain organizational legitimacy. It examines how presidents strategically frame organizational events in ways that help constituents make sense of their actions. Using archival and qualitative methods, I examine executive sensegiving strategies in the presidential communiqués of university magazines from eight tuition-driven universities during a 15-year period (2000-2014). Data revealed presidents employed three strategies--foundational, configurational, and transformational--driven by connecting different cues (i.e., events) with frames (i.e., institutional logics). Although prior literature has described actors draw on logics as a "toolkit," this study illuminates how they modify those "tools" over time. In the transformational strategy, university leaders engaged in boundary work, acting as "institutional entrepreneurs" to change the microfoundations--or core elements--of an institutional logic over time and especially the meanings associated with its symbols and language. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01