The University as a Business - Softcover

 
9783531180458: The University as a Business
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3531180452 ISBN 13: 9783531180458
Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2011

Synopsis

Worldwide, universities have recently been the object of large reform processes, facing strong pressure not only from their institutional environment to offer new programs and to adopt new governance and management systems to keep up with the growing competition in the higher education sector but also because of calls for an increase in the efficiency and effectiveness of academic institutions. The authors discuss the introduction of managerial approaches of university governance and the effects on the challenges and threats to treat universities like private for-profit businesses.

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About the Author

Dr. Paolo Rondo-Brovetto is Professor of Public Management at the Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt, Austria.
Dr. Iris Saliterer is an Assistant Professor of Public Management at the Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Her current research activities deal with contemporary topics in governance
and public management.

From the Back Cover

Worldwide, universities have recently been the object of large reform processes, facing strong pressure not only from their institutional environment to offer new programs and to adopt new governance and management systems to keep up with the growing competition in the higher education sector but also because of calls for an increase in the efficiency and effectiveness of academic institutions. The authors discuss the introduction of managerial approaches of university governance and the effects on the challenges and threats to treat universities like private for-profit businesses.

The book is valuable reading for researchers and managers in the field of university governance.

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Publisher
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3531180452
ISBN 13 
9783531180458
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
143
Editor
Saliterer Iris, Rondo-Brovetto Paolo