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Doomed to be Entrepreneurial: Institutional Transformation or Institutional Lock-Ins of 'New' Universities?

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Universities worldwide are facing enormous strains as a result of increased external expectations where global visibility should be mixed with local and regional utility. In debates on the future of higher education, becoming an entrepreneurial university has been highlighted as a novel - although perhaps a more hybrid - way to deal with this challenge. However, while the label entrepreneurial points to an image of the university as a dynamic free agent shaped in the interplay between dynamic environments and internal flexibility, the current article takes a more critical view on the factors conditioning universities with the ambitions of becoming more entrepreneurial - particularly those of more recent age and less academic standing. For these institutions it is suggested that the university ideal of being entrepreneurial may lead to a situation of strategic inertia characterized by an institutionalized 'lock-in' with few alternative development paths.

Avdelning/ar

  • Research Policy Institute (RPI)

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

399-416

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Minerva

Volym

51

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Springer

Ämne

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Nyckelord

  • Entrepreneurial
  • University
  • Strategy
  • Higher education
  • Institutional
  • profile

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1573-1871