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Universities, the State and the Market: Changing Patterns of University Governance in Sweden and Beyond

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This paper analyses changes in the governance of universities as a result of growing demands from society as well as of a strong penetration of management ideology into all kinds of institutions. For this purpose the paper uses a theoretical framework focusing on two governance mechanisms in social systems: entry control and performance control. These belong to a larger set of homogenising forces, which the new institutionalists label as (1) coercive, (2) normative and (3) mimetic. Using this theoretical framework to analyse the development of Swedish universities, the author concludes that their governance has undergone a considerable change. Coercive forces that were previously exercised through detailed budgeting have, in recent years, been operating through representation in leading bodies and through the selection of university leaders. This has occurred through a crowding out of normative forces. At the same time there have been strong mimetic forces based on modern management ideas.

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  • Lars Engwall, 2007. "Universities, the State and the Market: Changing Patterns of University Governance in Sweden and Beyond," Higher Education Management and Policy, OECD Publishing, vol. 19(3), pages 1-18.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:edukaa:5l4gt716knms
    DOI: 10.1787/hemp-v19-art19-en
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    1. Emerson Mainardes & Mário Raposo & Helena Alves, 2014. "Universities Need a Market Orientation to Attract Non-Traditional Stakeholders as New Financing Sources," Public Organization Review, Springer, vol. 14(2), pages 159-171, June.
    2. Päivikki Kuoppakangas & Kati Suomi & Jari Stenvall & Elias Pekkola & Jussi Kivistö & Tomi Kallio, 2019. "Revisiting the five problems of public sector organisations and reputation management—the perspective of higher education practitioners and ex-academics," International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing, Springer;International Association of Public and Non-Profit Marketing, vol. 16(2), pages 147-171, December.
    3. Beime, Kristina S. & Englund, Hans & Gerdin, Jonas & Seger, Karin, 2024. "Theorizing the subjectivizing powers of market-based technologies: Looking beyond coercion and seduction," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
    4. Engwall, Lars, 2014. "The recruitment of university top leaders: Politics, communities and markets in interaction," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 30(3), pages 332-343.
    5. Annalina Sarra & Adelia Evangelista & Barbara Iannone & Tonio Battista, 2023. "Looking for patterns of change amid pandemic period in students’ evaluation of academic teaching," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 57(5), pages 4759-4777, October.

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