Academic Units in a Complex, Changing World Adaptation and Resistance /

• Main Author: de Zilwa, Deanna (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Higher education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Higher Education.

This book uses case studies of academic units from Australian public universities to explore the reasons why those units respond in different ways to similar contemporary challenges. The ‘academic units’—departments, schools and faculties—in the world’s public universities may be their own administr...

Table of Contents:

• The Framework
• Complex, Turbulent Exogenous Environments
• Research Design and Methods
• to the Empirical Findings
• The Case Studies
• Defenders
• Prospectors
• Analysers
• Reactors/Resistants
• Conceptual and Practical Reflections
• Discussion and Conclusions
• Exploring Conceptual and Practical Implications of This Work
• Current and Emerging Challenges.