Provides an analysis of disclosures in fiscal years 2009 and 2010 by the 20 wealthiest private colleges in Massachusetts of their business relationships with firms affiliated with trustees. The study identifies widespread errors and omissions in reporting that raise questions about the quality...

In order to meet two key objectives, enrollment managers at colleges and universities make extensive use of single equation probability models. The first objective is to generate sufficient financial resources to educate the students enrolled. The more dependent the institution is on tuition...

Non-profit higher education institutions (HEIs)' donors want to insure that their money is used correctly. The agency tensions in non-profit organizations, and specifically in HEIs, can lead to family involvement when families are the donors in the early stage of these organizations. The...

We study the effects of public evaluation of university research on the pay structures of academic departments. A simple model of university pay determination shows how the pay-performance relationship can be explained by the incentives inherent in the research evaluation process. We then...

This study aimed to identify information deemed relevant by the stakeholders to the disclosure of the social responsibility and confirm their presence in the homepages of Community Institutions of Higher Education – CIHE. For the theory of stakeholders, defined key stakeholders and the...

Purpose: Business accelerators have rapidly emerged as prominent players in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. A key strategic decision in designing acceleration programs is whether to customize or standardize the new venture development program (Cohen et al., 2019). Recognizing a trade-off between...

We test Shattock's legacy reputation thesis that non-leading universities in the UK face insuperable resource barriers to entering the leading group. Employing regression analysis, we examine whether prioritizing research performance is a viable strategy for non-leading UK universities aiming to...

A school which wants to survive, prosper and develop must take risks. The main duty of those responsibly managing the school (the rector, the chancellor and the bursar) is to know the threat portfolio – the hazards facing the school now and those, which may occur in the future. These officials...

Global developments in higher education have made quality management afundamental tool of legitimacy. In parallel with the whole world, qualitymanagement has started to be institutionalized at the national level and thediffusion of quality management among higher education institutions...

Purpose: For two decades the Leuphana University of Lüneburg addresses socio-ecological issues in research, education and administration. To realize projects like “Agenda 21 and University of Lüneburg” (1999), “Sustainable University” (2004) and its mission statement of “Carbon...