Universities in Change: As a Brief Introduction

Altmann, Andreas; Ebersberger, Bernd

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-4590-6_1

Cited by 8 publications

(8 citation statements)

References 21 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Academic entrepreneurship is conceptualised as encompassing a wider range of engagement activities than only commercialisation. (Jain et al, 2009) Accordingly, efforts that encourage the building of entrepreneurial capacities within universities are also considered entrepreneurial (Klofsten andJones-Evans, 2000, Altmann andEbersberger, 2013). To the extent that research groups within universities have been described to function as 'quasi' firms (Etzkowitz, 2003), it can be inferred that academics may act in an entrepreneurial manner when pursuing the development of research networks and building research teams.…”

Section: David Charlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In such universities an increased emphasis is placed on commercializing research, licensing of technology, creating university spin-offs, introducing entrepreneurship programmes, and expanding university-industry relationships. (Foss and Gibson, 2015, Klofsten and Jones-Evans, 2000, Altmann and Ebersberger, 2013, Clark, 1998 Beyond this, there is an expectation that academics take on entrepreneurial characteristics within an entrepreneurial culture (Vorley and Nelles, 2009). Etzkowitz (2003), illustrates these entrepreneurial traits at the suborganisational level where research groups are described to function as 'quasi' firms.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Building of academics' networks: An analysis based on causation and effectuation theory

Ahoba-Sam¹,

Charles²

2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Individual academic scientists engage in various collaborations through their involvement in both regional and extra-regional networks. However, little is known about how these networks are actually formed. Focusing on university and industry networks, we take the view that the process of building new networks is an entrepreneurial activity that involves unpredictability and often goal ambiguity. This paper thus employs the theories of causation and effectuation to explore how the personal networks of academics are initiated. With evidence from the networks of 12 academics based at the University of Stavanger, Norway we show that both causation and effectuation are employed by academics when building their networks. The usage of causation was found to be more consistent with building industry networks whereas effectuation was employed when building networks in academia. Consequently, effectuation was characteristic of the international networks which were found to be mostly constituted by other academics. On the regional level, a mixture of both approaches of causation and effectuation was observed, with more industry linkages suggesting a tendency to be more causal than effectual. Furthermore, while causation was employed for project level networking, effectuation was employed for establishing more individual level ties.

show abstract

Section: David Charlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building of academics' networks: An analysis based on causation and effectuation theory

Ahoba-Sam¹,

Charles²

2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Moreover, future-oriented approaches and methods are not obvious in these strategic policy documents. As Altmann and Ebersberger (2012) argued, universities are confronted with growing expectations from their stakeholders, increasing international competition and new technological challenges, so the evaluation of critical issues by key stakeholders to determine the capacity for change is important in any university’s plans. In this regard, the main questions are: How can UT respond to future push pressures in ways that meet the needs of stakeholders?…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The futures of the University of Tehran using causal layered analysis

Ghahfarokhi

Mohaghar

Saghafi

2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Purpose Higher education and universities have faced unprecedented and ubiquitous changes. The University of Tehran or “UT,” as the leading university in Iran, is not immune to these changes. The purposes of this study is to investigate the current situation and future of the UT and gain insights and possible responses to changes that suit its strengths and potential to progress in an increasingly competitive, complex environment with uncertainties. It identifies deep fundamental underpinnings of the issue and highlights them for policymakers to formulate strategies and future vision of the UT. Design/methodology/approach Causal layered analysis (CLA) was applied as a framework and the data collected from different sources such as literature reviews, content analysis of rules, regulations and master plans of the university and coded interviews of four different groups of university stakeholders were analyzed. The current system of UT, as well as hidden beliefs, that maintains traditional perceptions about university was mapped. Next, by applying a new recursive process and reverse CLA order, new CLA layers extracted through an expert panel, the layers of CLA based on new metaphors to envision future of UT were backcasted. Findings The results from CLA layers including litany, system, worldview and metaphor about the current statue of UT show disinterest and inertia against changes, conservative, behind the times and traditional perceptions, and indicate that the UT system is mismatched to the needs of society and stakeholders in the future. The authors articulated alternative perspectives deconstructed from other worldviews so there are new narratives that reframe the issues at hand. The results show that to survive in this fast-paced revolution and competition in higher education, UT should develop scenarios and formulate new strategies. Research limitations/implications The authors had limited access to a wide range of stakeholders. As the UT is a very big university with so many faculties and departments, to access a pool of experts and top policymakers who were so busy and did not have time to interview inside and outside of university was very hard for the research team. The authors also had limitation to access the internal enactments and decisions of the trustee board of the UT and the financial balance sheets of the university. Originality/value In this paper, by mixing different methods of futures studies, the authors have shown how to move forward while understanding the perspectives of stakeholders about the future of UT by a new recursive process and reverse CLA order. A supplementary phase was added to improve CLA and to validate the method and results, which were ignored in previous studies.

show abstract

“…Estos procesos de generación del conocimiento también están relacionado a la enseñanza y la construcción de competencias de emprendimiento como vínculo que genere la conexión hacia la tercera misión, característica propia de las universidades modernas (Altmann & Ebersberger, 2013) o como también diría Urbano, el emprendimiento en el sistema de educación superior es un productor de conocimiento así como un diseminador de la institución (Guerrero & Urbano, 2012). La Tabla 1 identifica algunas de las características distintivas de las universidades emprendedoras.…”

Section: Introductionunclassified

Análisis De Factores Intervinientes Relacionados Al Modelo Deuniversidades Emprendedoras en Sudamérica

Vargas¹,

Luis²

2018

riu

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Esta investigación analiza los factores de desarrollo externos, de organización interna y mecanismos de apoyo al emprendimiento que traen como resultado una universidad emprendedora en instituciones Sudamericanas. Es de tipo cuantitativo, correlacional y de carácter explicativo con diseño de variables que busca conocer en qué medida éstas pueden ser predictoras de un modelo de universidades emprendedoras. La muestra correspondió a 65 universidades pertenecientes a 8 países sudamericanos con un carácter no probabilístico, cuyos datos fueron recolectados por encuestas online por los directores de ITT de las universidades seleccionadas. El modelo de Covin & Slevin, (1991) y adaptado para universidades por Markuerkiaga-Arritola, (2014) fue el utilizado en el estudio y consta de tres variables independientes que influyen sobre una variable dependiente calculándose el coeficiente de determinación de las variables para el contraste de las hipótesis, cuyos hallazgos muestran que se relacionan positiva y significativamente con los resultados obtenidos en universidades que implementan un modelo de gestión tipo universidad emprendedora. También se hizo un análisis SEM que permitió conocer el componente estructural relacionado con el tamaño de la muestra que fue significativo para el peso de las variables independientes sobre la dependiente, así como la covarianza entre ellas, así como los coeficientes de variables FAE y MAE que son directamente proporcionales con relación a la variable RUE. Finalmente, la dependencia geográfica, el estatus de dependencia y la pertenencia de un parque tecnológico mostraron diferencia estadística significativa para la gran mayoría de las dimensiones de las variables.

show abstract

Universities in Change: As a Brief Introduction

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Building of academics' networks: An analysis based on causation and effectuation theory

Building of academics' networks: An analysis based on causation and effectuation theory

The futures of the University of Tehran using causal layered analysis

Análisis De Factores Intervinientes Relacionados Al Modelo Deuniversidades Emprendedoras en Sudamérica

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About