What Are the Strategies of Australia’s Universities? Mission, Vision and Values

Timothy Devinney () and Grahame Dowling ()
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Timothy Devinney: Alliance Manchester Business School
Grahame Dowling: University of Technology

Chapter 7 in The Strategies of Australia’s Universities, 2020, pp 105-131 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Like many of their overseas counterparts Australia’s public universities have a grand vision. This is typically stated as shaping students’ lives and making a global contribution to research. This vision is then transformed into the missions of education, research and engagement with the community and industry. All of Australia’s universities have these multiple missions. The problem is to integrate them into a single overarching telos, or fundamental purpose. To see how well this is achieved, we examine the overlap of these multiple missions. Many statements of strategy do a poor job explaining how these missions combine to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts. The value chain framework is a good illustration of how many university missions reside in their own silo of activity.

Keywords: Multiple missions—knowledge creation; Information dissemination; Engagement; Social justice and equity; Vision; Telos; Values; Social tax; Value chain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-3397-6_7

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