Abstract
mrev management revue , Seite 187 - 203
Highlights
One can witness a strong trend towards the Europeanization of higher education
Compared to accreditation agencies and professional organizations, consultancies – like the Center for Higher Education Development (CHE), a think tank, which is very visible on different reform issues in German higher education and which has taken a pro-active stance towards the Bachelor and Master scheme – seem to be of minor importance, and interest groups like the national employers’ association, which came up with general guidelines on how to structure the stronger emphasis on vocational aspects in Bachelor programs, have according to our interview partners hardly any direct influence on the process
Trying to identify concrete mechanisms and actors, it is obvious that the main drivingforces are not mimetic processes among similar organizations in the field, as neoinstitutional researchers on organizational behavior typically find out
Summary
One can witness a strong trend towards the Europeanization of higher education. Questions on the framing of competition, the role of other higher education organizations as competitors and of students for which to compete arise These two sets of questions will be addressed by the help of some conceptual tools from organizational analysis. The research methodology of the parts I will draw on in my paper consisted of expert interviews based on guidelines, which typically took from one to one-and-a-half hour. We were able to conduct interviews with representatives of the organizations we contacted These 28 interview partners came from 14 of the 15 universities (six deans of teaching and students’ affairs, five administrators, two rectors, and one acting rector) of the federal state North Rhine-Westphalia. Sentatives of all six accredition agencies, as well as with representatives of eight policymaking and policy-advising organizations in the field
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