Methodology for the Governance and Management of the University as a Complex Adaptive System Based on the Three Missions: Research, Education, and Connecting with Its Surroundings

Functioning strategies of the research groups' leaders in the context of funding and policy instabilities☆

“…Universities face global standards, rankings, and the New Public Management, which require internal reforms, following similar rationales, with important national differences (Medina et al, 2014) and diversity given the way universities position themselves regarding standards, access and use of resources, organizational culture and governance, and inscription into the local milieu (Paradeise & Thoenig, 2015), where they involve themselves in setting up local STI policies 6 (Vessuri, 1998). Also, universities are starting to build their own policies, establishing internal systems for promoting research and allocating resources, adapting models from various levels of STI policies (Cancino et al, 2021; Haake & Silander, 2021; Luwel, 2021), sometimes adding complexity to the RGs environment. For Van der Meulen and Rip (1998), university councils act as intermediaries between the (inter)national policies and RGs performance.…”