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The Variance of German University Governance: Exploring the Effects of Organizational Field Positions 德国大学治理的差异：探索组织领域职位的影响

IF 1.6 3区教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Higher Education Policy

Pub Date : 2023-12-07 DOI: 10.1057/s41307-023-00332-1

Marian Döhler, Christoph Hönnige, Anna Kosmützky, Eva Ruffing, Helge Staff

Universities are increasingly perceived as strategic organizational actors that position themselves in the competition for reputation, resources, and talent. This study asks whether such positioning within the organizational field can explain variance in university governance structures. We quantitatively explore and explain the distribution of governance structures in German universities based on the actual organizational structures. Using original, hand-coded data on office, election, and decision rules of 80 German state universities managed by the subnational states (Länder), our study contributes to the existing literature in two regards. First, we provide an innovative and comprehensive, as well as a detailed description of German university governance—capturing the full empirical variance. Second, we test the effects of organizational field positions characterized by (1) state legislation, (2) competition, and (3) disciplinary foci. The findings indicate significant effects on the distribution of governance structures by state legislation and unsystematic effects of strategic and disciplinary organizational fields.

大学越来越被视为具有战略意义的组织行为者，在声誉、资源和人才的竞争中为自己定位。本研究提出的问题是，这种在组织领域中的定位能否解释大学治理结构的差异。我们以实际组织结构为基础，定量探讨并解释了德国大学治理结构的分布情况。我们的研究使用了手工编码的原始数据，这些数据涉及 80 所德国州立大学的办公室、选举和决策规则，我们的研究在两个方面对现有文献做出了贡献。首先，我们对德国大学治理进行了创新、全面和详细的描述，捕捉到了全部的经验差异。其次，我们检验了以 (1) 国家立法、(2) 竞争和 (3) 学科重点为特征的组织领域地位的影响。研究结果表明，国家立法对治理结构的分布产生了重大影响，而战略和学科组织领域则产生了非系统性影响。

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