• Does It Really Matter? Assessing the Performance Effects of Changes in Leadership and Management Structures in Nordic Higher Education 

      Pulkkinen, Kirsi; Aarrevaara, Timo; Berg, Laila Nordstrand; Geschwind, Lars; Hansen, Hanne Foss; Hernes, Helge; Kivistö, Jussi; Lind, Jonas Krog; Lyytinen, Anu; Pekkola, Elias; Pinheiro, Romulo; Stensaker, Bjørn; Söderlind, Johan (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Universities are public organisations, which operate in a highly institutionalised environment. They are heavily dependent on public resources. As such, universities are susceptible to shifts in governance arrangements but ...
    • Nordic Higher Education in Flux: System Evolution and Reform Trajectories 

      Pinheiro, Romulo; Aarrevaara, Timo; Berg, Laila Nordstrand; Fumasoli, Tatiana; Geschwind, Lars; Hansen, Hanne Foss; Hernes, Helge; Kivistö, Jussi; Lind, Jonas Krog; Lyytinen, Anu; Pekkola, Elias; Pulkkinen, Kirsi; Stensaker, Bjørn; Söderlind, Johan (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This chapter provides a brief description of how the four national systems included in this study—Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden—are currently organised and structured. In doing so, it illuminates several specific ...
    • Universities and regions: New insights and emerging developments 

      Berg, Laila Margaret Nordstrand; Thomas, Elisa; Iakovleva, Tatiana Aleksandrovna; Pinheiro, Romulo; Benneworth, Paul (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      In this concluding chapter, the editors take stock of the empirical findings across the cases and levels of analysis and link the empirical evidence to the analytical framework presented in Chapter 2. In so doing, we revisit ...
    • Universities' mundaneness and regional engagement: Setting the stage 

      Thomas, Elisa; Benneworth, Paul; Berg, Laila Margaret Nordstrand; Iakovleva, Tatiana Aleksandrovna; Pinheiro, Romulo (Chapter, 2022)
      This chapter introduces the main logic of this volume, which starts from the grassroots level of universities’ “everyday” engagements, looking at the manifold ways in which university knowledge agents build connections ...
    • Unpacking Mundaneness : A novel conceptual framework for universities and regional engagement 

      Pinheiro, Romulo; Berg, Laila Margaret Nordstrand; Iakovleva, Tatiana Aleksandrovna; Thomas, Elisa; Benneworth, Paul (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      In this chapter, we debate the current view on university-regional engagements and suggest a renewed theoretical framework based on four main elements – macro, meso, micro dimensions, as well as a meta-dimension of temporality ...