Who's Dean today? Acting and interim management as paradoxes of the contemporary university

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ID4545256
AutoresErica Mcwilliam (Queensland University of Technology), Ruth Bridgstock (0000-0003-0072-2815, Queensland University of Technology), Alan Lawson (0000-0002-3103-1964, The University of Queensland), Terry Evans (0000-0001-5087-5727, Deakin University), Peter Taylor (0000-0001-7456-3744, Queensland University of Technology)
Año2008
Volumen30
Número3
Páginas297-307
Fecha de publicación2008-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Higher Education Policy and Management (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1360-080X • E-ISSN: 1469-9508
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13600800802155218
OpenAlexW2034909608
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas19

Interim, discontinuous or 'acting' management is an increasingly ubiquitous feature of universities. This paper asks: What are the implications of this for good academic governance? Should we understand this managerial dance as a symptom of the collapse of good managerial order or, by contrast, as a symptom of the robustness and flexibility of the organisational culture of the university? Or both? This paper answers 'all of the above' to these questions. It reaches that conclusion by examining relevant literature, theorising a methodology for reading the field of interim management, and by applying this theorising to an analysis of qualitative data collected as part of a national collaborative research project conducted in Australia

Corporate governance · Economics · Flexibility (engineering · Interim · Management · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Robustness (evolution · Social science · Sociology · Higher Education and Employability · Higher Education Governance and Development · Human Resource and Talent Management · Law