- Title
- Collegial entrepreneurialism: Australian graduate schools of business
- Creator
- Ryan, Suzanne; Guthrie, James
- Relation
- Public Management Review Vol. 11, Issue 3, p. 318-344
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14719030902798248
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- In recent decades, Australian universities have corporatised. Encouraged by a range of Federal Government policies, universities have adopted New Public Management practices, the relevance of which to academia has been questioned (Ryan, Guthrie and Neumann, 2008; Parker, 2007). The term 'collegial entrepreneurialism' refers to an approach by universities that confronts the challenges presented by decreasing government funding and increasing commercialisation of higher education by building on traditional academic processes of collegiality (Clark, 2000). This paper examines the consequences for Australian academics of working in a commercialised educational environment in three autonomous graduate schools of business. The experience of these academics in dealing with managerialism, academic consumerism and fragmentation of work, provides insight into whether collegial practices can exist within an entrepreneurial academic unit. Results indicate evidence of 'collegial entrepreneurialism', although the balance between collegiality and entrepreneurialism is tempered by leadership and relations with central university management.
- Subject
- universities; modernization; collegiality; entrepreneurialism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/41534
- Identifier
- uon:4858
- Identifier
- ISSN:1471-9037
- Language
- eng
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