" There is no truer text to the topic than Managing Successful Universities... The second
edition is a full revision in which globalisation, managing financial disjuncture and the …

According to some, universities and academic research are under threat. As we move
towards a more knowledge-intensive economy, academics face pressures to link their work …

Since the 1990s, there have been more than 400 cases of university mergers in China,
representing various types and involving 1000 public institutions. While China has provided …

This article sets out in the context of globalization to identify, examine and discuss issues
related to structural adjustment and educational restructuring in China, with particular …

The purpose of this chapter is to trace and describe the major changes that have taken place
in South African higher education over the past decade, to explain why these changes were …

The main goal of this paper, based on a content analysis of the literature about models of
inter-institutional collaboration between higher education institutions, is to establish the …

Research evidence indicates that an unusually broad range of issues take on strategic
significance in a merger and that organisational cultures are critical to the successful …

Adopting an intergroup perspective, the authors examined predictors of change in
postmerger identification throughout a merger. Data were collected over 3 points of …

This paper focuses on the effect of merger on university efficiency. In a first stage analysis,
efficiency scores of English universities are derived for a 17-year period using the frontier …

National governments in several countries have promoted and carried out different forms of
mergers, consolidations and alliances within their higher education systems in order to …