The University as an Adaptive Resilient Organization: A Complex Systems Perspective

Pinheiro, Rómulo; Young, Mitchell

doi:10.1108/s2056-375220170000003007

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“…In all these events, the university bounced back renovated, by changing its structure, adding new roles, and forging new links with different stakeholders in the society. In the face of the present-day crisis posed by the full redesign of the university's roles in the contemporary society, some authors remember university's past resilience, described as the "universities' inbuilt capacity to respond to external demands and circumstances (..) in the context of a rather volatile external environment" (Pinheiro;Young, 2017, p. 119).…”

Section: The Resilient Universitymentioning

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University, science and the new (and old) academic roles: inner sources of institutional resilience

Balbachevsky

Kohtamäki

2020

Sociologias

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This paper parallels the changes experienced by universities and science at the beginning of the new century in order to explore one relevant source of resilience and change inside the universities’ institutional fabric, which is its persistent dependence on the signs and norms produced by science as a nested institution. In no small degree, science is organized according to its norms and values. Notwithstanding, it de facto exists inside the institutional environment created by the university. As such, one could argue that it is a nested institution. Our argument holds that the interplay between the institutional norms coming from the university and science gives rise to one of the more relevant sources of resilience of universities. The paper explores the soundness of these assumptions on primary data collected in a research focusing on the responses of lower-level academic unit leaders in two universities: the University of Tampere, Finland, and the University of São Paulo, Brazil. In each case, we explore the local responses to the changes engendered by autonomy as a proxy of the substantial change in the university's environment, to map how the small academic units respond to a quickly changing external environment.

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Section: The Resilient Universitymentioning

confidence: 99%

University, science and the new (and old) academic roles: inner sources of institutional resilience

Balbachevsky

Kohtamäki

2020

Sociologias

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“…A contemporary model to describe successful universities can be found in Seville's (2016) work and concept; resilient organizations. R. Pinheiro and Young (2017) expand the term by bringing a more nuanced perspective, framing successful universities as adaptive resilient organizations. In doing so, they propose an alternative understanding of how universities can evolve and adapt to external demands and circumstances in the long run.…”

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The Blockchain Challenge for Higher Education Institutions

Haugsbakken¹,

Langseth²

2019

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Blockchain technology is argued to be the next “big” digital technology trend that will challenge a number of organizations, including higher education institutions. In contrast, higher education institutions have a history of being slow to adopt new digital technologies in the organizational apparatus. The question that remains discussing is whether universities will approach blockchain technologies in ways that are different from traditional research and education. This paper intends to discuss three particular ways in which blockchain may challenge higher education institution. The paper questions whether blockchain technologies can democratize and automate learning process, reduce costly bureaucracy and be adopted in higher education institutions. In sum, the intent is to invite to a discussion on blockchain and address whether or in what ways higher education institutions should adopt blockchain technologies as a digital technology.

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“…The university is not a monolithic single institution, but rather best described as an array of multiple, complex and loosely coupled structures (Pinheiro and Young 2017). The term 'multiversity' (Kerr 2001) has been used as a way of characterising the various, sometimes conflicting, functions and roles that modern university systems address (see also Castells 2001).…”

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Responsible Universities in Context

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Kekäle

Pinheiro

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The Responsible University

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In this introductory chapter, the concept of the responsible university is introduced and put into context, first concerning other organisations and society at large, secondly in a historical perspective and thirdly related to policy initiatives across the globe. We also discuss how to implement this concept within the complex organisations that universities constitute. Lastly, we present some key features of the Nordic countries and introduce the empirical chapters of the book.

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The University as an Adaptive Resilient Organization: A Complex Systems Perspective

Cited by 47 publications

References 51 publications

University, science and the new (and old) academic roles: inner sources of institutional resilience

University, science and the new (and old) academic roles: inner sources of institutional resilience

The Blockchain Challenge for Higher Education Institutions

Responsible Universities in Context

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