Managing Universities: Policy and Organizational Change from a Western European Comparative Perspective (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Chapter 1. Setting the Stage: Theory and Research Questions; Ivar Bleiklie, Jurgen Enders and Benedetto Lepori.- Chapter 2. A Sociological Experiment on Methodological Design: Strengths and Limits of a Pragmatist Approach to Research Methods in the TRUE Project; Benedetto Lepori.- Chapter 3. Working in the Shadow of Hierarchy: Organisational Autonomy and Venues of External Influence in European Universities; Harry de Boer and Jurgen Enders.- Chapter 4. Budgeting Practices in European Universities; Marco Seeber and Benedetto Lepori.- Chapter 5. The Transformative Power of Evaluation on University Governance; Emanuela Reale and Giulio Marini.- Chapter 6. University Governance: Organisational Centralisation and Engagement in European Universities; Ivar Bleiklie, Svein Michelsen, Georg Krucken and Nicoline Frølich.- Chapter 7. Understanding Strategy Practices in Universities; Nicoline Frølich, Bjørn Stensaker and Jeroen Huisman.- Chapter 8. Four 'I's Configuring European Higher Education Governance; Amelia Veiga and Antonio Magalhaes.- Chapter 9. Politico-Administrative Structures and University Policies; Ivar Bleiklie and Svein Michelsen.- Chapter 10. Actor Constellations and Policy Making; Ivar Bleiklie, Svein Michelsen, Mary Henkel and Emanuela Reale.- Chapter 11. Policy Instruments in European Universities: Implementation of Higher Education Policies; Gigliola Mathisen Nyhagen, Ivar Bleiklie and Kristin Hope.- Chapter 12. Organisational Configurations of Modern Universities, Institutional Logics and Public Policies: Towards an Integrative Framework; Ivar Bleiklie, Jurgen Enders and Benedetto Lepori.