When Average Joe met the Inexperienced Superstar—a case study of the consequences for a university of a partnership with Ikea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21324543 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eugenia Perez Vico (0000-0001-8918-7411, Lund University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 795-813 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-1560 • E-ISSN: 1573-174X |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10734-020-00577-4 |
| OpenAlex | W3039637649 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
The aim of this study was to explore how consequences from a university-wide partnership unfolded at various levels within a university and induced intra-organizational dynamics. This was achieved via an in-depth investigation of “The Bridge,” a collaborative partnership between the young mid-range Swedish Linnaeus University (“Average Joe”) and the home furnishing retail giant IKEA, which despite its global reach has only limited research capacity (the “Inexperienced Superstar”). Based on previous research that conceptualizes consequences of collaborations as changes in wide-ranging resource categories over time, this article develops a conceptual framework that advances the understanding of the consequences of collaborative efforts at both the level of faculty individuals and groups, as well as on a university-wide level. The study identified both differences and similarities between the two levels related to material, knowledge, and social resource mobilization, and revealed consequent tensions within the university due to an imbalance in material resource mobilization and social resource mobilization. The resource-based multi-level perspective that this study puts forward enables a more fine-grained and dynamic understanding of the conditions for undertaking and organizing university-wide long-term collaborative efforts
Bridge (graph theory) · Business · Diversity (politics) · Economic growth · Economics · General partnership · Higher education · Management · Political science · Public relations · Resource (disambiguation) · Resource mobilization · Social movement · Sociology · Superstar · Higher Education Governance and Development · Innovation and Knowledge Management · Management and Organizational Studies · Marketing
The sociology of science
Research partnerships
Higher education and its communities
Mid-range universities’ linkages with industry
Academic engagement and commercialisation
Scientific Community.
The American University
The "Traffic" in Graduate Students
The tension between marketisation and academisation in higher education
The specificity of the scientific field and the social conditions of the progress of reason
Foundations of Social Theory
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