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Policy reform and academic drift: Research mission and institutional legitimacy in the development of the Swedish higher education system 1977-2012

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Twentieth-century massification of higher education and academic research led to mission diversification and structural diversification of national higher education systems (HESs), but also a tendency of non-university colleges to seek to develop into full-scale universities by the emulation of practices of established academic organizations, a tendency that has been called academic drift. The drift as such can have multiple causes, and in this article, we relate academic drift to the concepts of institutional logics and isomorphism from neoinstitutional organization theory, delineating policy-making, norm shifts and organizational action in response to uncertainty as three component processes of academic drift. Using the case of the organizational field of the Swedish HES and its recent 35-year history, we draw both empirical and theoretical conclusions, and demonstrate the weight of the research mission in the building of institutional legitimacy for university colleges.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

181-196

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

European Journal of Higher Education

Volym

5

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Nyckelord

  • academic drift
  • legitimacy
  • research mission
  • institutional logics
  • higher education systems
  • Sweden

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2156-8235