The Complexity of Change in Universities

Autor/inn/en	Meister-Scheytt, Claudia; Scheytt, Tobias
Titel	The Complexity of Change in Universities
Quelle	In: Higher Education Quarterly, 59 (2005) 1, S.76-99 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-5224
DOI	10.1111/j.1468-2273.2005.00282.x
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Educational Administration; Foreign Countries; College Administration + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Ausland; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung
Abstract	This paper relates to the implementation process of the Universitaetsorganisationsgesetz 1993 (University Organisation Act of 1993) at an Austrian university. In accordance with the idea of a managed university, the Austrian government aimed this law at transferring a greater scope of responsibility for strategic decisions and management issues from the ministry to the universities. The empirical basis is derived from a 2-year, in-depth field study showing that the transformation to a simple management orientation is in itself complex. We suggest therefore a frame of reference that is based on an understanding of universities as complex and self-referential organisations. This view explains changes in universities as nontrivial transformation and conceptualises the management of change in universities as a paradoxical intervention. (Author).
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