Sustaining Change in Universities: Continuities in Case Studies and Concepts.

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Title: Sustaining Change in Universities: Continuities in Case Studies and Concepts.
Authors: Burton R. Clark1
Source: Tertiary Education & Management. Jun2003, Vol. 9 Issue 2, p99-116. 18p.
Subject Terms: *Universities & colleges, *Educational change, *Bureaucracy, Organizational sociology
Abstract: My book, Creating Entrepreneurial Universities, based on mid-1990s research in five European universities, set forth five ``pathways of transformation'' by which public universities assume a highly proactive stance. On the basis of further research that tracks developments in these institutions during the late 1990s, this paper presents a conceptual transition from transformation to sustainability. How is change institutionally sustained after much transformation has taken place? Enduring components are found in a steady state of change that includes a bureaucracy of change. Further analysis suggests three dynamics of sustained change: reenforcing interaction among transforming elements; perpetual momentum resulting from steady accummulation of incremental changes; and ambitious volition embedded in the university as collective commitment and institutional will. A longer manuscript under preparation will explore the utility of the old pathways and the new sustaining features in case studies of entrepreneurial universities in other parts of the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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