A Model for Stakeholders’ Influence on Internationalization

Abstract

This article aims to discuss stakeholders’ influence on higher education institutions’ (HEIs) internationalization, through an analysis of the relationships established between stakeholders’ importance and the institutions’ rationales for internationalization, the strategies developed for internationalization, and the benefits from internationalization. Data for this study were collected in 80 Portuguese, Dutch, and Brazilian HEIs, using a questionnaire adapted from the 2nd and 3rd International Survey of Internationalization of the International Association of Universities. The results obtained from a descriptive–correlational treatment of the data allowed developing and proposing a typology for stakeholders’ classification and a model for their influence on internationalization.

Stakeholder pressure to obtain world-class status among Indonesian universities

“…Specifically, we answer the call of Parmar et al (2010) to address why universities in similar institutional environments are structured and processed differently on the ranking issue with different outcomes. Second, we complement prior studies that merely identify internal and/or external stakeholders' pressures on university rankings and lack of specifications (e.g., Paradeise and Thoenig, 2013;Castro et al, 2014). Third, many studies have been done to determine stakeholders' pressures, particularly from the government, on increasing worldclass university status in South-East Asia, such as Singapore (Sanders, 2018), Malaysia (Tan and Goh, 2014), Thailand (Rungfamai, 2016), and Vietnam (Nguyen et al, 2016).…”

“…Therefore, it is important to understand stakeholders as sources of change in the university to obtain world-class status (Paradeise and Thoenig, 2013). Several studies have investigated stakeholders' roles on this issue, such as the faculties' disappointment on the dropping of their university ranking, forcing administrators to emphasise more on ranking (Ginsberg, 2011); the internationalisation strategies shaped by internal and external stakeholders (Castro et al, 2014); the external stakeholders' roles on universities to become institutions of excellence or, at least, reputable ones (Paradeise and Thoenig, 2013); and that governments make budget allocation based on global rankings (Hazelkorn, 2011). However, what kind of pressures and from which stakeholders (internal or external ones) that lead to the organisational changes to obtain world-class status lack of investigation, which is the purpose of this study.…”

Internationalization of Higher Education: A Case Study on Media Utilization, Policies Consistency and Stakeholders’ Insights in Indonesia

“…If stakeholders' understanding does not have in common, stakeholders will have different activities which may not lead to a common goal. Therefore, stakeholders must understand internationalization in full to act following pre-determined goals (Castro et al, 2015;Nguyen, 2018).…”