Institutionelle Erneuerung durch Fusion? Vergleich von Hochschulfusionen in Deutschland und Großbritannien

Multi-Level Governance in Universities: Strategy, Structure, Control

“…Development Whereas mergers in higher education have been widespread in the U.S., U.K., Australia, and the Netherlands since the 1970s (Goedegebuure 1992 ;Harman and Harman 2003 ;Harman and Meek 1988 ;Skodvin 1999 ), in Germany mergers are a fairly new phenomenon. Motives for these mergers are profi le development, quality improvement, raising visibility, economies of scale, and synergy effects to improve the position in competitive education markets (Battke and Cremer-Renz 2006 ;Pruisken 2012 ;Weber 2009 ). Empirically, the majority of the few mergers in Germany still refl ect state-decreed cost-reduction policies (Pruisken 2012 ).…”

Institutional Change of European Higher Education: The Case of Post-War Germany

“…Motives for these mergers are profi le development, quality improvement, raising visibility, economies of scale, and synergy effects to improve the position in competitive education markets (Battke and Cremer-Renz 2006 ;Pruisken 2012 ;Weber 2009 ). Empirically, the majority of the few mergers in Germany still refl ect state-decreed cost-reduction policies (Pruisken 2012 ). The reforms of external governance were designed to increase the autonomy of universities and encourage competition among them.…”

Institutional change in the German Higher Education system: from professional dominance to managed education

“…Motives for these mergers are profile development, quality improvement, raising visibility, economies of scale, and synergy effects to improve the position in competitive education markets (Battke & Cremer-Renz, 2006;Pruisken, 2012;Weber, 2009). Empirically, the majority of the few mergers in Germany still reflect state-decreed cost-reduction policies (Pruisken, 2012).…”

“…Empirically, the majority of the few mergers in Germany still reflect state-decreed cost-reduction policies (Pruisken, 2012). The reforms of external governance were designed to increase the autonomy of universities and encourage competition among them.…”