Overview
- Invites a reconsideration of governance frameworks that generate bureaucratic waste, insularity and prejudice
- Shows that only decentralization of academic units will generate the freedom that sustains innovative performance, research integrity, improved learning, and reputation
- Demonstrates how healthy competitiveness and strategic collaborations emerge when intellectuals challenge markets and hierarchies
Part of the book series: Knowledge Studies in Higher Education (KSHE, volume 6)
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This book explains why conflict between the institutional and human agencies is an unavoidable outcome of competing local, national and global agendas at a major research university. It illustrates this by means of a case-study of Glonacal U, a university which belongs to the category of exceptional institutions that excel due to an established organizational culture of academic freedom, research excellence, shared governance, and intellectual leadership. The book shows how such a university may succumb to anxiety when neoliberal managers seek to exploit stakeholder doubts about university sufficiency, relevance, and performance in national and global markets and hierarchies of knowledge products and status goods. As top-down pressure for strategic choices in scientific partnerships increases at the world-class university, grassroots resistance to centralization increases also in order to remind the research university leaders that intellectual work and academic freedom are interdependent and central to building capacities for impactful global science. Productive global linkages are prerogative of academics who take full responsibility for success of project implementation and outcomes in scholarship and practice.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Academic Collaborations in the Global Marketplace
Authors: Anatoly V. Oleksiyenko
Series Title: Knowledge Studies in Higher Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23141-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23139-2Published: 02 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23141-5Published: 23 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2566-7106
Series E-ISSN: 2566-8315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 239
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, International and Comparative Education, Knowledge Management, Globalization