Do Corporate Management Tools Inevitably Corrupt the Soul of the University? Evidence from the Implementation of Responsibility Center Budgeting

Autor/inn/en	Deering, Darren; Sá, Creso
Titel	Do Corporate Management Tools Inevitably Corrupt the Soul of the University? Evidence from the Implementation of Responsibility Center Budgeting
Quelle	In: Tertiary Education and Management, 24 (2018) 2, S.115-127 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1358-3883
DOI	10.1080/13583883.2017.1398779
Schlagwörter	Administration; Corporations; Colleges; Educational Administration; Higher Education; Commercialization; Budgeting; Case Studies; Comparative Analysis; Documentation; Content Analysis; Administrative Organization; Responsibility; Qualitative Research; Foreign Countries; Semi Structured Interviews; Michigan; Canada (Toronto); New Hampshire + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Verwaltung; Unternehmen; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Dokumentation; Inhaltsanalyse; Verantwortungsübernahme; Zuständigkeit; Qualitative Forschung; Ausland
Abstract	The use of corporate management tools in universities has been widely critiqued in recent decades, as it is viewed as undermining academic goals and promoting marketization and corporatization. Responsibility center budgeting (RCB) is one popular management tool that has been decried as promoting market logics, internal competition and institutional fragmentation. This comparative case study investigated four North American universities that employed RCB for several years, to investigate the relationship between unit autonomy and coordination. Site visits and interviews with key informants were conducted at the four universities, supplemented by document analysis. The analysis identifies widely different experiences between two sets of universities. Findings show that the ability of the central administration to promote vertical coordination is critical to mitigating the adverse consequences of RCB. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01