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Changing higher education policies: From the deinstitutionalization to the reinstitutionalization of the research mission in Polish universities

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This paper analyzes changing higher education policies in Poland in the last two decades. It argues that top Polish public universities became divided, with different individual academic and institutional trajectories in the academic fields in which educational expansion occurred (social sciences) and in fields in which it was much less pronounced (natural sciences). Using the concepts drawn from new institutionalism in organizational studies, this paper views the 1990s as the period of the deinstitutionalization of traditional academic rules and norms in public universities, with growing uncertainty about the core of the academic identity. In the expansion era (1990--2005), prestigious public research universities became excessively teaching-oriented. In the period of educational contraction, their currently teaching-oriented segments are expected to become research-intensive. New legislation grounded in an instrumental view of higher education is interpreted as a return to a traditional academic normative consensus, with increased emphasis on, and funding for, the research mission. Copyright The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com, Oxford University Press.

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  • Marek Kwiek, 2012. "Changing higher education policies: From the deinstitutionalization to the reinstitutionalization of the research mission in Polish universities," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 39(5), pages 641-654, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:39:y:2012:i:5:p:641-654
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    1. Steffi Heinecke, 2016. "The Gradual Transformation of the Polish Public Science System," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(4), pages 1-17, April.
    2. Ilya Prakhov & Victor Rudakov, 2018. "The Determinants of Faculty Pay in Russian Universities: Incentive Contracts," HSE Working papers WP BRP 47/EDU/2018, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    3. Marek Kwiek, 2018. "Academic top earners. Research productivity, prestige generation, and salary patterns in European universities," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 45(1), pages 1-13.
    4. Agasisti, Tommaso & Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joana, 2014. "Exploring universities’ efficiency differentials between countries in a multi-year perspective: an application of bootstrap DEA and Malmquist index to Italy and Poland, 2001-2011," Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series qt14m8g45v, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley.
    5. Kwiek, Marek & Roszka, Wojciech, 2021. "Gender-based homophily in research: A large-scale study of man-woman collaboration," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 15(3).
    6. Stephen, Dimity & Stahlschmidt, Stephan, 2021. "Performance and structures of the German science system 2021," Studien zum deutschen Innovationssystem 5-2021, Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation (EFI) - Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation, Berlin.
    7. Marek Kwiek, 2018. "High research productivity in vertically undifferentiated higher education systems: Who are the top performers?," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 115(1), pages 415-462, April.
    8. Kwiek, Marek, 2015. "The unfading power of collegiality? University governance in Poland in a European comparative and quantitative perspective," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 43(C), pages 77-89.
    9. Marek Kwiek, 2020. "Internationalists and locals: international research collaboration in a resource-poor system," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 124(1), pages 57-105, July.
    10. Andrey Lovakov & Maia Chankseliani & Anna Panova, 2022. "Universities vs. research institutes? Overcoming the Soviet legacy of higher education and research," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 127(11), pages 6293-6313, November.
    11. Paul Benneworth & Rómulo Pinheiro, 2015. "Involving universities in regional upgrading in the periphery," CHEPS Working Papers 201510, University of Twente, Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS).
    12. Adam R. Szromek & Radosław Wolniak, 2020. "Job Satisfaction and Problems among Academic Staff in Higher Education," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-38, June.

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