Similar to broader developments within the non-profit and public sector over the last two decades higher education organizations have been subject to profound organizational transformations. Despite very different culturally embedded models and national pathdependencies there is a general trend towards a more “managerial regime” of university governance and institutional self-management. While there has been broad interest in subsequent institutional responses of universities and implications regarding research activities, changes of university leadership and administration have received less attention in theoretical and empirical research so far.

The workshop aims at bringing together scholars and contributions to higher education management from a variety of disciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives and from very different countries.

Program (see full version attached in .pdf)

Monday, September 6th
9:30-11:00
Welcome by the FÖV-Deputy Director
Dorothea Jansen (FÖV Speyer)
Introduction to the Workshop
Georg Krücken (FÖV Speyer)

Key Note:
Professionalization in the Non-Profit Sector
Walter Powell (Stanford University)
Coffee Break

11:30-13:00
Occupational and Organizational Change in Higher Education Administration in Germany
Georg Krücken / Albrecht Blümel / Katharina Kloke
(FÖV Speyer)

Third Space between Professional and Academic Spheres of Activity in UK Universities
Celia Whitchurch (University of London)

Lunch

14:00-15:30
How to Manage a University? Understanding 90 years of Global Organizational Change
Danielle Logue (Oxford University)

A Theoretical Model of Professionalism of Higher Education Management
Linda Evans (University of Leeds)

Coffee Break

16:00-18:15
Faculty Participation in Governance: Contract Approach to Analysis of the Incentives
Anna Panova (Higher School of Economics Moscow)
University and College Leadership: The Emergence
of a Professional Management Cadre?
Hildegard Logan (Sheridan College)

Leadership in a Structure of Functional Antagonism: University Reforms as Re-education, and the
Double Talk of University Leaders
Uwe Schimank (University of Bremen)

19:30
Reception and Dinner
Old Town Restaurant: Domhof Speyer

Tuesday, September 7th

9:30-11:00
University Leadership and Institutional Change in Germany
Bernd Kleimann (HIS Hannover)
Nadja Bieletzki, (University of Hannover)

What does Merging Mean for Organizations like Universities?
Mael Dif-Pradelier (EES Lausanne)
Christine Musselin (CSO Paris)
Coffee Break

11:30-13:00
Branding the University: Cross-National Analysis of Visual Displays of Organizational Identity
Guiseppe Delmestri (University of Bergamo)
Gili Drori (Stanford University)
Achim Oberg (University of Mannheim)

Networks of Professionalization: Quality Assurance and the Emergence of a European Profession
Kathia Serrano-Velarde (University of Heidelberg)

Lunch and Farewell


Registration
No fees will be charged for the workshop. For presenting
participants accommodation and meals are covered.
Travel costs have to be covered individually.
Non-presenting participants have to pay for meals and
accommodation.

Please register until August, 5th 2010 by contacting
Sabine Rechner-Ralle (rechner-ralle@dhv-speyer.de).
We kindly ask you to confirm the dates of your arrival
and departure and for what days you need a room.