We Collaborate with Everyone, but with Some More than Others: Evidence of Stakeholder Collaboration among Internal Security Professional Higher Education Institutions

Autor/inn/en	Valk, Anne; Kratovitš, Mairit
Titel	We Collaborate with Everyone, but with Some More than Others: Evidence of Stakeholder Collaboration among Internal Security Professional Higher Education Institutions
Quelle	In: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 13 (2021), Artikel 4 (30 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Valk, Anne)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1877-6345
DOI	10.1186/s40461-021-00110-6
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Professional Education; Higher Education; Stakeholders; International Cooperation; Information Security; Trust (Psychology); Professionalism; Estonia; Germany; Finland; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Berufsausbildung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Professionalität; Estland; Deutschland; Finnland; Norwegen
Abstract	The aim of this article is to identify the main stakeholders of institutions of professional higher education in the field of internal security in selected countries, and the most important collaboration practices, and the factors that affect collaboration. Within the framework of a qualitative phenomenographic study, interviews were conducted with representatives of Estonian, German, Finnish, and Norwegian institutions of professional education in the field of internal security. The results showed that institutions of professional higher education differ from traditional universities in prioritizing their main stakeholders, putting employers first, and not students. In addition, the ministries under whose government they operate, and other higher education institutions were named as the main stakeholders. Collaboration with stakeholders is mostly based on common interests and personal relationships (e.g., mediation, networking, joint reputation building, collaboration councils), on some kind of formal basis (e.g., feedback system, collaboration councils) or subordination (e.g., execution of orders and instructions, trading). The aspects most influencing collaboration were considered to be the aspects related to trust and professionalism, and in particular informal collaboration was valued. The results of this study enabled the author to supplement a framework from a previous study, which originally described the theoretical collaboration of the stakeholders of an institution of higher education in the field of internal security; this was supplemented by adding the dimension of collaboration diversity. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01