This review explores the two sides of university governance. From a meso perspective, it
deals with universities as organized structures where priorities have to be set, decisions …

Während der letzten beiden Jahrzehnte hat sich in deutschen Hochschulen sowie dem
Hochschulsystem insgesamt ein umfassender Wandel vollzogen. Dieser Wandel und seine …

This paper makes a contribution to the debate on university organisational actorhood by
theorising the determinants of institutional strategic positioning. It argues that besides …

Higher education systems are changing due to trends of funding pressures, increasing
social demands and growing numbers of students. Even though teaching and research are …

The purpose of this review is to identify key research themes in the field of higher education
(HE) supply-side marketing through a systematic search of journal article databases of …

This article explores the factors affecting the content of universities' mission statements. We
conceptualize missions as identity narratives, a type of symbolic representation of an …

In general, a mission statement reflects the context in which a higher education institution
operates. It's also a direction setting statement indicating the direction required for effective …

Purpose: To conduct a transnational study of universities' mission statements (MS) through
content analysis to identify characteristics related to language (eg number of words, the most …

Higher education (HE) scholarship often focuses on the so-called 'entrepreneurial'university
as a consequence of new public management reforms. Simultaneously, the remarkable …

This paper aims to ascertain whether and to what degree universities are becoming
organizational actors globally. Utilizing an original dataset of a sample of 500 globally …