Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education

Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education explores how managers influence teaching, learning and academic identities and how new initiatives in teaching and learning change the organizational structure of universities. By building on organizational studies and higher education studies literatures, Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education offers a unique perspective, presenting empirical evidence from different parts of the world. This edited collection provides a conceptual frame of organizational change in universities in the context of New Public Management reforms and links it to the core activities of teaching and learning.

Part 1. University from the organizational perspective 1. Universities, teaching, and learning 2. Teaching matters, too: Different ways of governing a disregarded institution 3. Bridging the duality between universities and the academic profession: A tale of protected spaces, strategic gaming and institutional entrepreneurs 4. Organizing and managing university education Part 2. Organizing teaching 5. Toward a conceptualization of faculty decision-making about curricular and instructional change 6. Institutional (teaching) entrepreneurs wanted! - Considerations on the professoriate's potency to enhance academic teaching in Germany 7. Organizing teaching in Chinese universities Part 3. Organizing learning 8. Learners and Organizations: competing patterns of risk, trust and responsibility 9. Organizing teaching in project teacher teams across established disciplines using wearable technology - Digital Didactical Designing a new form of practice 10. Changing organizational structure and culture to enhance teaching and learning: Cases in a university in Hong Kong Part 4. Organizing identities 11. Multiversities and academic identities: change, continuities and complexities 12. Boundary crossing and maintenance among UK and Dutch bioscientists: Toward hybrid identities of academic entrepreneurs 13. University academic promotion system and academic identity: An institutional logics perspective Conclusion