Strategy development in UK higher education: towards resource‐based competitive advantages

Managing Resources and Relations in Higher Education Institutions: A Framework for Understanding Performance Improvement

“…Social capital and institutional resources play important roles and have been shown to improve institutional performance in organizational management literature; however, few studies have explored HEI performance development and improvement through organizational theories. Some scholars have also suggested a need to explain how to enhance HEI performance (Lynch & Baines, 2004). Based on the results, these theoretical implications appear to contribute to institutional research in five ways.…”

“…HEIs with higher reputations can have stricter entrance requirements (as a better choice), higher earnings (as a more attractive choice), and high-quality students with higher learning absorption (Lynch & Baines, 2004;Monks & Ehrenberg, 1999;Siebert & Martin, 2013). This is because factors of academic and institutional reputation are related to resource intensity (Peters, 2007), which can lead to the Matthew effect where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer (Corley & Gioia, 2000).…”

“…and "What are the implications for institutional strategy development?" (Lynch & Baines, 2004). Most of the cases within research that consider the performance evaluation of HEIs come from Western countries (Colbert, Levary, & Shaner, 2000;Korhonen, Tainio, & Wallenius, 2001;Abbott & Doucouliagos, 2003) while few studies have been conducted regarding Asian HEIs' performance, especially those in Taiwan.…”

Insights Into Consumer Resource Integration And Value Co-Creation Process

“…The review of the literature on firm resources in the previous section shows that firm resources has seldom been applied to Higher Education Institutions (HEI). Lynch and Baines (2004) have developed a framework that identifies tangible and intangible resources of universities that are most likely to provide HEI an advantage over their competitors. Comparing and contrasting the classification of firm resources by Madhavaram and Hunt (2008) and Lynch and Baines (2004), a new classification that avoids overlap was created (Table 5), firm (i.e.…”

Effects of Strategic Decisions on Performance of Kenyan Universities

“…For higher education institutions, such resources might include the reputation of certain departments, the grouping together on areas of specialist expertise, and the development of technical patents and so on (Lynch & Baines, 2004). According to Barney (1991) location is a firm physical capital resource.…”