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In this chapter, we explain what governance in an SOU looks like including the principles and practices that underpin the approach. In the SOU, governance is an emergent expression of a university’s learning and teaching context, its model and professional practice reflected in day-to-day normal work. We have reserved a discussion of the organizational design of governance for the fifth chapter of the book to show how governance in the SOU expresses many of the ideas, methods, and tools described in the preceding chapters.
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Common approach to organizational design described by Burton et al. (2011).
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Term used by Tarde to emphasize the primacy of small scale effort.
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Bain, A., Zundans-Fraser, L. (2017). Governing for Learning and Teaching. In: The Self-organizing University. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4917-0_5
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