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Strategic advisory boards - the emergence of shadow governance in universities?
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Stensaker, Bjørn, Jungblut, Jens and Mihut, Georgiana (2021) Strategic advisory boards - the emergence of shadow governance in universities? International Journal of Leadership in Education . pp. 1-17. doi:10.1080/13603124.2021.1913237 ISSN 1360-3124. (In Press)
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2021.1913237
Abstract
Numerous universities throughout the world have established top-level advisory boards – informal bodies and councils that the institutional leadership may consult on issues perceived as important. Through a series of qualitative interviews with members of such entities as well as representatives of the institutions appointing them, the article sheds light on how strategic advisory bodies function, and how these entities frame and interact with the institutional leadership. We observe that strategic advisory boards represent a hybrid form of governance installing mutual dependencies between representatives of the boards and the institutional leadership – what we label as a kind of controlled collegiality. While university leadership acts as a gatekeeper controlling access to these boards, once members are nominated the power relations between the actors, become more equal. The study highlights the importance of strategic advisory boards as new elements in higher education governance – working in the shadow of more formal governance arrangements. Here, we argue that the establishment of these boards can be interpreted as a re-introduction of a collegial element in universities exposed to a number of reforms resulting in more streamlined and managerial governance structures.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Universities and colleges -- Administration, Education, Higher -- Administration, Educational leadership , Advisory boards in higher education | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Leadership in Education | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1360-3124 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2021 | ||||||||
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| Page Range: | pp. 1-17 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/13603124.2021.1913237 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 September 2021 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 September 2021 | ||||||||
| Is Part Of: | 1 |
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