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 …

This paper explores the digitalisation of teaching and learning understood as external
processes, influenced by government and international trends and as internal processes …

An extensive literature has focused on the impact of new public management (NPM)
oriented structural changes on academics' practice and identity. These critical studies have …

It is often assumed within much of the academic literature and by many of those working in
higher education that universities across Europe are homogenising, converging around an …

Reforms and changing ideas about what higher education institutions are and should be
have put pressure on academic identity. The present paper explores the way academics in …

In the context of globalized markets and localized R&D structures, tertiary (also called higher
or university) education becomes one of the main factors facilitating economic performance …

Due to their common history, Finland and Sweden share many similarities. However,
important differences have also developed in constitutional law, political culture and …

This paper explores the way by which universities create meaning of digitized performance
measures on research quality and their effects on university scholars' actions. Drawing on …

Claims of fundamental changes of the organizational model of universities have been
widespread during the latest decades. To empirically assess the character and extent of …

Global and European political shifts are having an impact on the present and future of
Nordic universities, including ideals of institutional autonomy. The aim of this paper is to …