Changing managerial roles in Danish universities

Hanne Foss Hansen, Jonas Krog Lind and Andreas Kjær Stage

Science and Public Policy, vol. 47, issue 4, 447-457

Abstract: The article analyses changes in university managerial roles in the wake of a range of reforms, most notably a radical Danish management reform in 2003, using institutional work as the theoretical framework. Both qualitative and quantitative data is drawn upon, the former consisting of interviews with academics and managers on all levels and the latter in the form of payroll data for all Danish university employees. By combining these data in a mixed methods study, the analysis reveals how managerial roles have changed slowly, steadily, and substantially in the years since the reforms, resulting in extensive change. The article hereby questions the resilience of universities as organisational incarnations of a traditional collegial template.

Keywords: university reform; managerial roles and recruitment; institutional work; universities as organizations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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