What Are the Strategies of Australia’s Universities? Organisational Structure

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

Chapter 11 in The Strategies of Australia’s Universities, 2020, pp 183-190 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Because of their broad scope, universities are complex organisations.Most publish a simplified organisation chart on their website.Notwithstanding the fact that the structure of an organisation is a key factor in the execution of strategy, seldom are these charts linked directly back to the strategy of the institution. In essence, they are strategy-free.However, what they do show is a managerial bureaucracy surrounding the academic functions of the university.Inevitably, this organisational complexity imposes its will on the academic community.

Keywords: Organisation chart; Organisational complexity; Individual complexity; Faculty deans; Managerial bureaucracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-3397-6_11

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