European Universities as Complete Organizations? Understanding Identity, Hierarchy and Rationality in Public Organizations

Marco Seeber, Benedetto Lepori, Martina Montauti, Jürgen Enders, Harry de Boer, Elke Weyer, Ivar Bleiklie, Kristin Hope, Svein Michelsen, Gigliola Nyhagen Mathisen, Nicoline Frølich, Lisa Scordato, Bjørn Stensaker, Erica Waagene, Zarko Dragsic, Peter Kretek, Georg Krücken, António Magalhães, Filipa M. Ribeiro, Sofia Sousa, Amélia Veiga, Rui Santiago, Giulio Marini and Emanuela Reale

Public Management Review, 2015, vol. 17, issue 10, 1444-1474

Abstract: This article investigates the form of European universities to determine the extent to which they resemble the characteristics of complete organizations and whether the forms are associated with modernization policy pressure, national institutional frames and organizational characteristics. An original data set of twenty-six universities from eight countries was used. Specialist universities have a stronger identity, whereas the level of hierarchy and rationality is clearly associated with the intensity of modernization policies. At the same time, evidence suggests limitations for universities to become complete, as mechanisms allowing the development of some dimensions seemingly constrain the capability to develop others.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2014.943268

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