Based on key governance and organisational characteristics from the 1970s universities
have been conceptualised as organised anarchies and loosely coupled systems. More …

Public communication has become more important to higher education institutions (HEIs),
with many HEIs using social media to communicate with stakeholders. However, scholarship …

Purpose The question of whether and how communication departments contribute to
organizational value creation has rarely been addressed in research. Such evidence is …

The immediacy of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the sheer importance of internal and
external communication with stakeholders. Universities had to rapidly grasp an unfolding …

Higher education institutions (HEIs) are major players in public science communication.
However, only a few studies have investigated HEI communication practitioners, who play …

There is increasing interest in studying science communication from an institutional point of
view. With much of the empirical research focusing on views of institutional actors on …

Purpose The paper reports on a research project exploring the change in the organizational
context of communicators and communication units in higher education and research …

This research note reports empirical observations on public communication of research
institutes within universities, using data from an international quantitative study in eight …

This article aims to counter the prevailing pessimism about the state of organizational
sociology by examining the contributions of this line of inquiry to higher education studies. It …

The article identifies current trends with respect to the governance and management of
institutional performance in higher education institutions and discusses how recent …