This timely and important book provides a critical analysis of the changes and challenges that currently affect European universities. Using both theoretical contributions and applied case studies, leading experts argue that universities as institutions are in need of change – although...

<title>Abstract</title> In recent decades, Australian universities have corporatized. Encouraged by government policies, universities adopted modernization practices that have been widely questioned. ‘Collegial entrepreneurialism’ is an approach that builds on collegial processes to protect academic values...

In recent decades, Australian universities have corporatised. Encouraged by a range of Federal Government policies, universities have adopted New Public Management practices, the relevance of which to academia has been questioned (Ryan, Guthrie and Neumann, 2008; Parker, 2007). The term 'collegial...

This paper raises important issues for the identity of Australian business schools arising from the debate on the relevance of management education, a debate largely held outside of Australia. The identity theory of Laclau and Mouffe (1985), adapted to organizations by Bridgman (2005), is used...