Sub-theme 83: Universities Facing the Crossroads of Managerialism and Digitalization
Convenors:
Lars Engwall, Uppsala University, Sweden
Christine Musselin, SciencesPo, France
Francisco O. Ramirez, Stanford University, USA
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P0-01c
Introduction and Digitalization
Chair: Lars Engwall
Ravit Mizrahi-Shtelman
Multiple views on the role of AI in shaping the research process in higher education organizations
Discussant(s): Philip Saner
Philippe Saner and Luca Tratschin
Digitalization as an interstitial arena. Alliances, opportunities, and digital strategies in the university ecology
Discussant(s): Ravit Mizrahi-Shtelman
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P0-01c
Missions of Universities
Chair: Christine Musselin
Joshua Brown and Mary Kate Blake
Collegiate constellations: Vocabularies of organizational identity in environments of complexity and change
Discussant(s): Jérémy Orsat
Corentin Mariette, Stéphanie Mignot-Gérard and Olivier Meier
The hindered development of continuing education in French universities. Paradoxical tensions resulting in a "discreet" strategy
Discussant(s): Joshua T. Brown
Michel Ferrary and Jérémy Orsat
Organizational symbiosis and university-industry knowledge recursivity through academic entrepreneurship
Discussant(s): Corentin Mariette
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30, U6-P0-01c
Organizing Universities
Chair: Francisco O. Ramirez
Luisa P. Overmeyer, Jetta Frost and Fabian Hattke
Narratives of organizing transformations: A qualitative meta-study of configurations
Discussant(s): Daria Platonova
Stéphanie Mignot-Gérard, Christine Musselin and Aline Waltzing
Managing a crisis as organizational & institutional maintenance. The case of four French universities coping with Covid
Discussant(s): Luisa P. Overmeyer
Daria Platonova, Aleksei Egorov, Tommaso Agasisti, Pavel Serebrennikov and Tatiana Akuneeva
University non-academic professionals and organisational performance: In search of interdependencies
Discussant(s): Stéphanie Mignot-Gérard
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P0-01c
Publishing
Chair: Lars Engwall
Nanna Mik-Meyer and Margaretha Järvinen
Publication scripts in academia: Gaming as grey-zone behaviour
Discussant(s): Adil Rodionov
Giulio Marini
Individual performance indicators and careers: Publication patterns triggered by the Italian national qualification (ASN)
before and after promotion.
Discussant(s): Nanna Mik-Meyer
Adil Rodionov, Darkhan Medeuov and Sulushash Kaztayeva
The publication trap: Controversial science policy in Kazakhstan
Discussant(s): Giulio Marini
Session V: Friday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P0-01c
Resource Allocation
Chair: Christine Musselin
Btissam Aboubichr and Alice Lam
The impact of performance management systems on collegial relationships at work
Discussant(s): Gergely Kováts
Vera Cathrin Simoneit, Jane Bjørn Vedel and Søren Lund Frandsen
The alignment of power and authority: A study of resource allocation in Danish universities
Discussant(s): Btissam Aboubichr
Gergely Kováts, Éva Révész, György Drótos and Péter Kádár-Csoboth
Functions, dysfunctions and latent functions of performance contracts
Discussant(s): Vera Simoneit
Session VI: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, U6-P0-01c
Students
Chair: Francisco O. Ramirez
Sonia Giebel and Yasemin Soysal
The form and formalization of diversity discourse in global higher education: Comparing German universities of excellence
and the Russell Group of the United Kingdom
Discussant(s): Antti Ainamo
Marie Stadge
Teaching students about ecological transition to sustainable development: Finding a way between wishful thinking and an offence
to academic freedom
Discussant(s): Sonia Giebel
Antti Ainamo and Marko Nieminen
University ecosystem for student startups: Aalto Entrepreneurial Society as inhabited institution
Discussant(s): Marie Stadge
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P0-01c
Human Resource Management
Chair: Christine Musselin
Uwe Wilkesmann and Olga Wagner
Theoretical and empirical approach to how a professorship is organized in the German higher education system and how the organizational
process works
Discussant(s): Lisa-Maria Gerhardt
Liudvika Leišyte, Jürgen Enders and Rajani Naidoo
Platform capitalism and human resource management in higher education
Discussant(s): Uwe Wilkesmann
Lisa-Maria Gerhardt
Towards managerialism: Studying formalization and hierarchization of appointment procedures in German higher education
Discussant(s): Liudvika Leišyte
Session VIII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P0-01c
Internationalization and Concluding Discussion
Chair: Lars Engwall
Jieun Song and Seungah S. Lee
Becoming ‘world-class’? Internationalization and the varied organizational actorhood of universities in the global higher
education arena
Discussant(s): Pinar Eldemir
Mark Thomas, Olivier Guyottot and Nathalie Louisgrand
Paradoxical tensions of international accreditation for business schools; the experience of Eastern Europe
Discussant(s): Jieun Song
Pinar Eldemir and Benedetto Lepori
Local needs, global pressures, and internationalization strategies: Recruitment of international faculty members in Swiss
universities
Discussant(s): Olivier Guyottot