Exploring the logics of governing Australian VET markets
Accommodations and ambivalence between institutional orders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21696293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Don Zoellner (0000-0001-8065-6728, Charles Darwin University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 407-423 |
| Publication date | 2026-03-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Vocational Education and Training (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-6820 • E-ISSN: 1747-5090 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13636820.2025.2556832 |
| OpenAlex | W4414059006 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
Responding to expert observers’ reports of the historically low priority given to theory-informed vocational education and training (VET) policymaking, this article seeks to expand the sector’s research repertory by conducting a discourse analysis of Australia’s tripartite VET governance arrangements. Seeking an unconventional understanding of trilateral governance, the meta-theoretical institutional logics perspective is described along with its potential application to generate new perspectives on VET operations. This additional research methodology describes socially constructed viewpoints on how governments, employer groups and union/professional bodies have governed VET markets in a historically contingent set of arrangements. Based on their shared industrial relations interests, these three cornerstone social institutional orders have come to understand the accommodations that they must make with each other to sustain their dominance while simultaneously treating society’s other four institutional orders with ambivalence and in ways that exclude their ability to join VET governance arrangements. Several theoretically informed potential research projects are identified as being suitable for an application of the institutional logics perspective as a contribution to the development of additional theory-based VET research techniques
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| Highly cited | No |
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