The Enterprise University: Power, Governance and Reinvention in Australia

by Simon Marginson , Mark Considine

• ISBN13: 9780521794480
• ISBN10: 052179448X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Throughout the industrialized world, universities have undergone remarkable changes since the mid-1980s. The Enterprise University in Australia is the first systematic study of the Australian system since the momentous Dawkins reforms ten years ago. Grounded in case studies of seventeen Australian universities, the authors contend that the modern university can be understood as an "enterprise university," characterized by corporate-style executive leadership.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures	vii
Preface	ix
List of abbreviations and shortened forms	xi
Introduction	1	(19)
Paradise lost?	1	(6)
Governance and identity	7	(5)
The study	12	(8)
Roots of the Enterprise University (1): From policy to governance	20	(20)
Devolution and conformity	20	(3)
Prehistory of the present	23	(4)
Dawkins and after	27	(13)
Roots of the Enterprise University (2): From academy to global business	40	(28)
Globalisation and academic capitalism	40	(13)
Corporatism in Australia	53	(15)
Territories and strategies: Executive power in the Enterprise University	68	(28)
The best game in town	68	(4)
Governance `outside-in'	72	(19)
Free to deal	91	(5)
College and corporation: Institutional power in the Enterprise University	96	(37)
Rachel Boston
Good-bye to all that	96	(2)
Governance and management	98	(10)
Bored at the board	108	(17)
Networking downwards	125	(8)
Economies of invention: Research power in the Enterprise University	133	(42)
Butterflies in formation	133	(3)
Research as a money economy	136	(15)
Creating compliance	151	(13)
Discipline without disciplines	164	(11)
Many paths, one purpose: Diversity in the Enterprise University	175	(58)
Conformity in diversity	175	(3)
Courageous imitations	178	(7)
Sandstones and all that	185	(17)
Isomorphs with a difference	202	(31)
Conclusion	233	(21)
The Enterprise University	233	(11)
Beyond the Enterprise University	244	(10)
Notes	254	(13)
Index	267