Higher education and its communities

Interconnections, interdependencies and a research agenda

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23353201
AutoresBen Jongbloed (0000-0002-8360-8710, University of Twente, autor de correspondencia), Jody Enders (0000-0003-1835-3587, University of Twente, autor de correspondencia), Jürgen Enders, Carlo Salerno (0000-0002-8038-8345, United States Government Accountability Office, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen56
Número3
Páginas303-324
Fecha de publicación2008-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHigher Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-1560 • E-ISSN: 1573-174X
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10734-008-9128-2
OpenAlexW2074323550
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas149
Referencias citadas25

Universities everywhere are being forced to carefully reconsider their role in society and to evaluate the relationships with their various constituencies, stakeholders, and communities. In this article, stakeholder analysis is put forward as a tool to assist universities in classifying stakeholders and determining stakeholder salience. Increasingly universities are expected to assume a third mission and to engage in interactions with industrial and regional partners. While incentive schemes and government programmes try to encourage universities to reach out more to external communities, some important barriers to such linkages still remain. To fulfil their obligation towards being a socially accountable institution and to prevent mission overload, universities will have to carefully select their stakeholders and identify the ‘right’ degree of differentiation. For the university, thinking in terms of partnerships with key stakeholders has important implications for its governance and accountability arrangements. For the future of the universities we foresee a change towards networked governance and arrangements to ensure accountability along the lines of corporate social responsibility. In order to further explore some of these concepts and to empirically investigate the tendencies suggested here, this article proposes an ambitious research agenda for tackling the emerging issues of governance, stakeholder management and higher education’s interaction with society.

Accountability · Business · Corporate governance · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Higher education · Incentive · Institution · Interdependence · Obligation · Political science · Public relations · Stakeholder · Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting · Higher Education Governance and Development · Management and Organizational Studies · Public Administration