Understanding University President Leadership Research in China: A Review

Liu, Peng; Wang, Xiaoyang; Liang, Xiaomeng

doi:10.1007/s11516-019-0006-8

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“…Analysing career profiles reveals people's steps into presidential roles. Drawing inspiration from studies like Huang (2015), ACE (2007) and Liu, Wang, and Liang (2019), Figure 1 presents a career trajectory map which profiles the number of years spent in different roles by each of the interviewed presidents (GUP1 to GUP18) and as well as the average (AV). While the most common immediate prior role is vice-president, a number entered from headships or deanships, and four had experience outside universities.…”

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Global university president leadership characteristics and dynamics

Liu

Hong

Wen

et al. 2020

Studies in Higher Education

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This exploratory paper articulates the development, characteristics and nature of global university presidents and their leadership. It draws insights from a growing project which so far has involved in-depth interviews with 18 presidents of major globally focused universities. Analysing and reporting these interview results reveals the enigmatic world of presidential leadership broadens this field of research beyond the Anglosphere, helps build interpretative frameworks and perspectives, and furnished insights for guiding leadership development. The exploratory findings reinforce the particular value of studying university presidents, as these people have enormous authority, expertise and prominence.

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Section: Steps Into the Presidencymentioning

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Global university president leadership characteristics and dynamics

Liu

Hong

Wen

et al. 2020

Studies in Higher Education

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“…Compared with other countries in the world, the proportion of the native presidents who grown up from original universities is quite high (Zhang & Wang, 2007). This is because there is a special alma mater complex in Chinese culture (Liu et al, 2019). In a study on global university president leadership characteristics, only a fifth took their doctorate from the same university which they lead (Liu et al, 2020).…”

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“…Reducing the tenure of local presidents can increase their pressure and improve the performance. However, it is unwise to reduce the tenure for all presidents because short term can also lead to unstableness and poor performance (Dennison, 2001; Liu, Wang et al, 2019), especially for universities leaded by outside presidents.…”

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Research on the Growth Experience of Presidents and Scientific Research Performance of Top Universities in China

Zhong

2023

Education and Urban Society

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More than half of the presidents in top universities of China have been grown up in their original universities. According to the upper echelon theory, the “indigenization” characteristics of university presidents will have an impact on their cognitive level and thus affect the scientific research performance of universities. Based on data from the National Natural Science Fund Projects and the National Social Science Fund Projects of China from 2007 to 2016, as well as individual characteristics of presidents, this paper empirically investigates the influence of the growth experience of presidents in 115 “Project 211” universities on scientific research performance. The results show that the presidents who grow up from the original universities have a significant negative impact on national fund projects, especially on the national natural science foundation projects. This paper suggest that the reason maybe the insufficient motivation and less access to external resources for native presidents. Some corresponding policy recommendations are proposed for this purpose.

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