Research shows that the ascendency of managerialism in the higher education sector and
its fundamental contradictions with the professional values has placed misaligning identity …

Over the last 30 years, governments have continuously adjusted their Higher Education
policies to make universities more efficient (achieving more by spending less) and more …

Higher education (HE) reforms are usually inspired by New Public Management (NPM)
global reform scripts. This article focuses on a pivotal object of NPM-driven reforms––central …

Branding of higher education institutions (HEIs) is an expanding area of research. The
existing literature mainly draws on the strategic management perspective that argues that …

Several university alliances have been established in Europe in an attempt to influence the
development of policies in research and education. As such, these alliances can be seen as …

The New Public Management (NPM) governance framework was introduced into higher
education systems across the world in the 1990s and early 2000s following a period of huge …

Increasing reliance on market mechanisms in higher education is analysed both as one of
the approaches to steering as well as in relation to the consequences of markets for quality …

It is a common understanding that the historical steering function of the nation state has
been challenged by other coordination modes. Scholarly debate has highlighted the blurring …

This article examines conceptually the role of political parties in higher education policy. It
discusses in how far political parties matter for changes in higher education policy, whether …

The rich body of literature that has sought to shed light on how global trends shape public
sector institutions at the local level frequently claims that globalization is significantly …