ERIC Number: EJ1417484
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1360-080X
EISSN: EISSN-1469-9508
Emergence of a Potentialising Organisation in University Self-Governance: Temporalisations in Strategies
Juha Tuunainen; Kari Kantasalmi; Sari Laari-Salmela
Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, v46 n2 p218-233 2024
Referring to failures in policy-driven public governance research this paper looks at strategising in higher education. It expands horizons for understanding university strategies in a more nuanced way than hitherto has been done. Deploying systems theory, it shows how different temporalities co-exist in strategies and how their change reflects the university's capacity to meet future contingencies. Extending the current research on strategising, the paper uses the present's past, the present's future, the future's present and the future's future as temporal categories to understand strategies. It shows how strategies evolve from traditional linear planning orientation to a novel potentiality-seeking mode with unique meanings attached to unknown futures. It claims that universities develop such responsive contingency awareness to construct a leeway for their self-governance in the face of unexpected future conditions. This change is characterised by the emergence of a potentialising organisation seeking to turn indeterminant futures into its developmental resources.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Strategic Planning, Educational Legislation, Government School Relationship, Governance, Institutional Autonomy, Social Change, Social Environment, School Organization, Educational Policy
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Finland
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