Research Handbook on the Transformation of Higher Education

‘Providing a multi-level outlook on higher education transformation, The Research Handbook on the Transformation of Higher Education is timely and useful as it identifies key aspects and methods of transformational change that leaders can apply to their own institutions. Through detailed analysis of the technological, socio-political and market forces that are currently transforming universities and colleges, chapters portray change within higher education as responsive to global academic challenges such as structural inequality, reductions in state funding and the pandemic-accelerated pace of digitalisation.’
– James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review

‘The book is timely and important. Different dimensions of the complex and at times confusing topic of higher education transformation are disentangled and discussed at various levels. It’s of particular value that the often neglected relations between these dimensions and levels are also illuminated.’
– Georg Krücken, International Center for Higher Education Research, University of Kassel, Germany

‘A state-of-the-art Research Handbook on a key institution of our societies. It is a must read for understanding the multiple dynamics of deep change in higher education systems and institutions. Conceptually and empirically rich, multiple perspectives from around the globe highlight the drivers, actors, processes, and effects of transformation in higher education.’
– Jürgen Enders, University of Bath, UK

‘This insightful Research Handbook critically addresses the promises and perils of the transformation of higher education. Grappling with the global, national and local continuities and entrenched interests reflected in higher education alongside the drivers of transformation, it discusses worldwide trends in the direction of privatization, the limits of diversity frames, the challenges of global templates, and growing inequalities within and between countries.’
– Francisco O. Ramirez, Stanford University, US

‘This inspirational book explores the local and global dynamics of university transformation which doesn’t only emerge from management initiatives but from grassroots staff engagement and outside companies too. The richness and scope of the book is such that academics, students, manager-academics and policy-makers will all find great ideas that support exciting, democratic, student-focused and inclusive transformations.’
– Rosemary Deem, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

‘An essential book to update one’s knowledge and analytical understanding of the worldwide most recent higher education transformations. From digitalization to new forms of institutional governance, the authors explore the concrete effects of change at individual, institutional and systemic levels, as well as the resistances counterbalancing them.’
– Christine Musselin, SciencesPo and CNRS, France

‘Change and transformation are often taken for granted and few scholars take up the challenge to unpack these concepts. This eclectic collection with thoughtful analyses and clear delineation of key actors involved will change our understanding of transformation in higher education.’
– Jeroen Huisman, Ghent University, Belgium

Contributors: Michael Oduro Asante, Jamie Beaton, Gerardo L. Blanco, Timothy Reese Cain, Robin Jung-Cheng Chen, Hamish Coates, Avery M. D. Davis, Harry de Boer, Stefan de Jong, Jay R. Dee, Alicia C. Dowd, Henry Etzkowitz, Xi Gao, Lars Geschwind, Regina H. Gong, Leslie D. Gonzales, Clémentine Gozlan, Sophia Shi-Huei Ho, Janja Komljenovic, Ebru Korbek-Erdogmus, Vito Laterza, Liudvika Leišytė, Miguel Antonio Lim, Stefan Lundborg, Mónica Marquina, Stephanie Marshall, Sanfeng Miao, Christopher C. Morphew, Hidehiro Nakajima, Anatoly V. Oleksiyenko, Rómulo Pinheiro, Sharon Rider, Andreas Kjær Stage, Katrin Stolz, Kristen Surla, Pedro Nuno Teixeira, Cathrine Edelhard Tømte, Barend J.R. van der Meulen, Aleš Vlk, Ali Watts, Uwe Wilkesmann, Ben Williamson, Chunyan Zhou

Contents:
List of contributors viii

PART I UNDERSTANDING HIGHER EDUCATION
TRANSFORMATION IN DIFFERENT HIGHER
EDUCATION SYSTEMS
1 Conceptualizing higher education transformation: introduction to the
research handbook on the transformation of higher education 2
Jay R. Dee, Liudvika Leišytė and Barend J.R. van der Meulen

PART II CHALLENGES FOSTERING TRANSFORMATION IN
HIGHER EDUCATION
2 The digitalisation of higher education: the transformative role of EdTech 23
Jamie Beaton, Xi Gao and Hamish Coates
3 Behind the ivory façade: capitalism, the post-truth condition, and
epistemic authority 37
Sharon Rider
4 Markets in higher education: from systemic to institutional marketization 50
Pedro Nuno Teixeira
5 From transfer to transformation: adapting global templates to national,
local, and institutional contexts 68
Gerardo L. Blanco
6 Managerialism with Soviet characteristics and global higher education:
legacies and paradoxes of university transformations 81
Anatoly V. Oleksiyenko

PART III THE KEY ACTORS AND INSTRUMENTS THEY USE IN
HIGHER EDUCATION TRANSFORMATION
7 Evaluation and academic oligarchy in Latin American higher education:
less or more power? 95
Mónica Marquina
8 Academic union voice and the transformations in/of higher education 111
Timothy Reese Cain
9 The emergence of academic resistance platforms against new public
management: towards “new” forms of movement organizing? 126
Liudvika Leišytė and Clémentine Gozlan
10 Non-academic staff’s part in transforming academia: as irrelevant as
their label suggests? 141
Andreas Kjær Stage and Stefan de Jong
11 Agencies in higher education: the neglected variable in the governance
equation 160
Harry de Boer
12 University rankers: actors in the transformation of higher education
management and managers 175
Miguel Antonio Lim
13 The role of industry in higher education transformation 188
Aleš Vlk
14 Capitalising the future of higher education: investors in education
technology and the case of Emerge Education 203
Janja Komljenovic and Ben Williamson

PART IV SALIENT HIGHER EDUCATION TRANSFORMATIONS
RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGES IN THE
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
SECTION A THE EFFECTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION
TRANSFORMATIONS ON THE SYSTEM LEVEL
15 Privatization’s transformative effects on academia: promise versus products 220
Avery M. D. Davis and Christopher C. Morphew
16 Higher education access and racial equity for students 236
Ali Watts and Alicia C. Dowd
17 Women academics, identity capitalism, and the imperative of transformation 251
Leslie D. Gonzales, Regina H. Gong, Sanfeng Miao and Kristen Surla
18 Massification and quality of higher education: transforming quality
enhancement of teaching and learning 264
Stephanie Marshall
19 The impact of digitalisation on higher education teaching in Germany 277
Katrin Stolz

SECTION B THE EFFECTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION
TRANSFORMATIONS ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL
20 Entrepreneurial university conception: an instauration for the
advancement and utilization of knowledge 292
Henry Etzkowitz and Chunyan Zhou
21 The organizational transformation of universities: using motivation
theories to explain the micro–macro link 312
Uwe Wilkesmann
22 Organizational culture and the transformation of higher education institutions 328
Jay R. Dee, Hidehiro Nakajima and Ebru Korbek-Erdogmus
23 Passive and active resistance to performance pressures among
academics in UK universities 346
Liudvika Leišytė
24 Digital transformation in higher education before and following
COVID-19: a Scandinavian tale 361
Rómulo Pinheiro, Cathrine Edelhard Tømte, Vito Laterza and Michael Oduro
Asante
25 Matrix hybridity: the complex realities of strategic councils 377
Stefan Lundborg and Lars Geschwind
26 New managerialism, academics’ working conditions, teaching input,
and research emphasis in the East Asia context 393
Robin Jung-Cheng Chen and Sophia Shi-Huei Ho

PART V CONCLUSION
27 Unpacking transformation in higher education and framing a future
research agenda 411
Liudvika Leišytė, Jay R. Dee and Barend J.R. van der Meulen

Index 425