Sub-theme 65: Universities in Transition: Strategies for Adapting to and Shaping Social Change
Convenors:
Christine Musselin, SciencesPo, CSO, CNRS, France
Simon Oertel, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria
Linda Wedlin, Uppsala University, Sweden
Session Time Corridor 1: Thursday, July 09, 09:00 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Introduction, Universities in context
Break 1: 10:15 to 10:30
Chair: Linda Wedlin/Simon Oertel
Mikołaj Pawlak, Tomasz Detlaf, Antoni Grześczyk, Anna Kosmützky, Frank Meier, Andreas Röß, Mikołaj Pawlak, Francois van Schalkwyk and Tomasz Warczok
Universities in Transition: Comparing Disciplinarity in Germany, Poland, and South Africa
Discussant(s): Cagla Ozgoren
Cagla Yavuz Ozgoren and Mine Karatas
Polities and the Durability of Institutional Logics: A Field-Level, Longitudinal Study of Higher Education
Discussant(s): Anna Kozmütsky
Peter McNamara, Olga Ryazanova and Annie C. Snelson-Powell
Universities responding to changing societal legitimacy narratives: Implications for university-based business schools
Discussant(s): Rayan Merkbawi
Rayan Merkbawi and Mark Riboldi
From Public Good to Corporate Survival: Universities, Populism, and the Hollowing of Corporate Responsibility
Discussant(s): Alexander Mitterle
Alexander Mitterle
The five bodies of the university. An inquiry into the embodiments of organizational actorhood.
Discussant(s): Olga Ryazanova
Session Time Corridor 2: Thursday, July 09, 16:00 to 19:15, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Leadership, governance and change
Break 1: 17:30 to 17:45
Chair: Christine Musselin/Linda Wedlin
Lars Engwall
Socrates in the Market: The Selection of Academic Top Leaders 1975‒2024
Discussant(s): Anna Górska
Mária Dunavölgyi and Marton Katona
The challenges of "detoxifying" organizations with toxic leadership traditions
Discussant(s): Lars Engwall
Anna M. Górska
Symbolic displacement of the rector under managerial governance in an owner-driven university
Discussant(s): Mária Dunavölgyi
Lali Giorgidze and Emmanuelle Reuter
Not One Compliance, But Many: Compliance Enactment under Polycentric Authority in Pluralistic Organizations
Discussant(s): Saskia Köpsell
Anna-Lena Rose, Liudvika Leišytė and Melanie Hummitzsch
Boards in the context of private higher education: An investigation of types, roles and social composition of boards in German
private higher education institutions
Discussant(s): Lali Giorgidze
Saskia Köpsell and Simon Oertel
Making Sense of Digital Transformation: Framing, Institutional Logics, and Organizational Change in Higher Education Institutions
Discussant(s): Anna-Lena Rose
Session Time Corridor 3: Friday, July 10, 09:00 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Diversity, collegiality and change
Break 1: 10:30 to 11:00
Chair: Simon Oertel/Christine Musselin
Greta Temporin
A practice-based perspective on organizational change strategies towards gender equality: the case of GEPs
Discussant(s): Alessia Sammarra
Matthias Schneider, Kathrin Zippel, Kathrin Zippel, Gülay Çağlar and Jessica Gold
Governing Diversity in Transition: Uneven Institutionalization under Social Change
Discussant(s): Greta Temporin
Alessia Sammarra, Manuela Paolini, Mahsa Abedini and Silvia Dello Russo
Reaching the top of Italian higher education institutions: a gender perspective on contextual factors, career pathways, and
time to general directorship
Discussant(s): Matthias Schneider
Kerstin Sahlin, Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist and Linda Wedlin
Collegiality out of sight – practices and debates of peer review
Discussant(s): Mayra Tirado
Mayra Morales Tirado and Robert Kirsch
From Universities in transition to universities in contradiction?
Discussant(s): Kerstin Sahlin
Session Time Corridor 4: Friday, July 10, 16:00 to 18:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Entrepreneurial universities
Chair: Linda Wedlin
Anna Kosmützky, Laura Lüchtefeld and Lisa Walther
Universities and the Governance of Translational Medicine: The Role of Boundary Mechanisms
Discussant(s): Neelagriva Sodinapalli
Ines Troshani, Elisa Villani and Rossella Salandra
Intrapreneurial Behavior in Academia: A Single-Case Process Theory of Cross-Mission Innovation
Discussant(s): Laura Lüchtefeld
Chih-wei Yeh
Semiconductor education within neoliberal universities: The manpower factory of the chips global value chain
Discussant(s): Ines Troshani
Neelagriva Sodinapalli
Redefining what counts: Sustainability indicators, rankings, and the normative updating of business school quality
Discussant(s): Chi-Wei Yeh
Session Time Corridor 5: Saturday, July 11, 09:00 to 11:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Funding, impact and idea transfers. Conclusions.
Break 1: 10:00 to 10:15
Chair: Simon Oertel/Christine Musselin
Kristina Dahlin, Marcelle Anne Laliberté and Daniel Atlin
Whose business is it anyway? Governance, funding, and institutional identity in European business schools and universities
Discussant(s): Valentina Bucaioni
Valentina Bucaioni and Benedetto Lepori
The European funding model as organizational architecture: Students, budgets, and research capacity
Discussant(s): Kristina Dahlin
Haley A. Beer, Helen Bevan, Julia Borgers, Katharina Dittrich and Carly Hegenbarth
Researcher Impact Profiles and Measures of Positive Social Change: A Systematic Literature Review
Discussant(s): Olga Ryazanova
Olga Ryazanova, Bastian Rake, Peter McNamara, Bastian Rake and Peter McNamara
Uncovering the footprint of academic research in public policymaking: comparative analysis of three small advanced European
economies
Discussant(s): Haley Beer