Mergers in higher education : lessons from theory and experience /
In a comparative study of two Canadian higher education mergers, Julia Eastman and Daniel Lang examine why and how universities merge and why some mergers succeed while others fail.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
©2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- I. HIGHER EDUCATION MERGERS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHY THEY HAPPEN
- 1. Introduction
- Mergers in Higher Education
- The Cases
- 2. Why Mergers Happen
- The Motivation to Merge
- The Political Economy of Merger
- The Paradigms of Merger
- The Two Cases in Context
- II. THE CASES
- 3. The Merger of Dalhousie University and the Technical University of Nova Scotia
- The Deep Background
- The Attempt to Rationalize in the 1990s
- Dal/TUNS Amalgamation
- Amalgamation: Why in 1997?
- 4. The Merger of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the University of Toronto
- Teacher Training and Educational Research in Ontario, 1900-1965
- The Boom Years
- Years of Retrenchment
- Integration: The 1980s Attempts
- Reversal of Fortune
- Integration, '90s Style
- 5. The Cases in Context
- The Cases Compared
- That Which Might Have Been: Types of Mergers
- Mergers as Partnerships in Change
- The Cases as Partnerships in Change
- III. REFLECTIONS ON EXPERIENCE
- 6. On Dynamics and Structure
- Size and Power in Higher Education Merger
- The Perils of Uniqueness
- Dynamics of Negotiation
- Fit between Mission, Structure, and Resources
- Unit-Level Transition Planning
- Conditions for Constructive Grassroots Participation
- On Organizational Redesign and Staff Redeployment
- 7. On Roles and Behaviour
- The Players
- Human Factors
- 8. On Dollars and Data
- The Dynamics of Size and Specialization
- Economies of Scale
- Due Diligence
- Transition Costs
- Information and Information Systems
- Libraries
- 9. The Steps to Merger
- The Process Steps
- The Substantive Steps
- Putting It All Together
- A Path to Merger
- Combining Substance with Process
- Staging and Sequencing of Issues
- Transition Scheduling.
- 10. Concluding Observations
- The Role of Government Confirmed
- The Importance of Institutional Characteristics
- Do Process and Leadership Matter?
- A Contingency Theory of Higher Education Merger Management
- Balancing Planning and Incrementalism
- The Paradigms Revisited
- The Future of Mergers in Higher Education
- Appendices
- 1. Agreement Between The Province of Nova Scotia, Technical University of Nova Scotia, Dalhousie University
- 2. University of Toronto/Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Integration Agreement
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Z.