The University As A Business

Download or read book The University as a Business written by Iris Saliterer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-13 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide, universities have recently been the object of large reform processes, facing strong pressure not only from their institutional environment to offer new programs and to adopt new governance and management systems to keep up with the growing competition in the higher education sector but also because of calls for an increase in the efficiency and effectiveness of academic institutions. The authors discuss the introduction of managerial approaches of university governance and the effects on the challenges and threats to treat universities like private for-profit businesses. The book is valuable reading for researchers and managers in the field of university governance.