Mergers in Higher Education: The Experience from Northern Europe

Book Overview

This book addresses the critical knowledge gaps of mergers involving higher education institutions. It is based on a comparative research project (spring 2013-spring 2015) investigating the phenomena of mergers involving higher education institutions across the Nordic countries - Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The study involved close to 30 scholars from the region, and aimed at shedding critical light on, and providing novel contributions around, the following key aspects:

Conceptual and theoretical approaches - strengths and limitations - towards the study of the phenomena of mergers in higher education;
Historical developments, leading to significant structural changes in the domestic higher education landscape, and, in turn, how mergers have been used as a policy/institutional mechanism to foster adaptation to a new external environment at the local, national, regional and international levels;
The complex dynamics inherent to merger processes by undertaking an in-depth investigation of a series of selected case studies, with a particular focus on the "black-box" associated with the implementation process;
The implications of the findings as regards future policy and strategic endeavours, theory development and future research agenda.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319372629
• ISBN13: 9783319372624
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"