Mergers in Higher Education : The Experience from Northern Europe Paperback / softback
Edited by Romulo Pinheiro, Lars Geschwind, Timo Aarrevaara
Part of the Higher Education Dynamics series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book addresses the critical knowledge gaps of mergers involving higher education institutions.
It is based on a comparative research project (spring 2013-spring 2015) investigating the phenomena of mergers involving higher education institutions across the Nordic countries – Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark.
The study involved close to 30 scholars from the region, and aimed at shedding critical light on, and providing novel contributions around, the following key aspects: Conceptual and theoretical approaches – strengths and limitations - towards the study of the phenomena of mergers in higher education; Historical developments, leading to significant structural changes in the domestic higher education landscape, and, in turn, how mergers have been used as a policy/institutional mechanism to foster adaptation to a new external environment at the local, national, regional and international levels; The complex dynamicsinherent to merger processes by undertaking an in-depth investigation of a series of selected case studies, with a particular focus on the “black-box” associated with the implementation process; The implications of the findings as regards future policy and strategic endeavours, theory development and future research agenda.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:236 pages, XII, 236 p.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:23/08/2016
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- ISBN:9783319372624
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:236 pages, XII, 236 p.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:23/08/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9783319372624
