Content; Foreword; The University in the Modern Marketplace; 1 Introduction; 2 The Basic Change in Funding; 3 Students as Customers; 4 The Limits of Efficiency; 5 The University and Management Concepts; 6 The University as a Social Critic; 7 The Danger of Bias in Research; 8 The Limitation of Academic Choice; 9 The Evaluation of the University; 10 Education for What?; 11 Conclusions; Why Universities are not Businesses; 1 Abstract; 2 Definition of businesses; 3 Morphology of academic services; 4 Universities as non-business institutions; 5 The inappropriateness of business management
Summary
Worldwide, universities have recently been the object of large reform processes, facing strong pressure not only from their institutional environment to offer new programs and to adopt new governance and management systems to keep up with the growing competition in the higher education sector but also because of calls for an increase in the efficiency and effectiveness of academic institutions. The authors discuss the introduction of managerial approaches of university governance and the effects on the challenges and threats to treat universities like private for-profit businesses. The book is valuable reading for researchers and managers in the field of university governance
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Includes bibliographical references and author index
