2019
DOI: 10.1108/ijoa-08-2018-1522
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What do mission statements reveal about the values of top universities in the world?

Abstract: Purpose Mission statements are perceived as effective strategic tools and foundations of an organization's objectives, driving the development of strategic plans to meet the established goals. A vast number of studies have investigated mission statements in industry; however, little is known on how mission statements affect institutes in the higher education sector. Every university is intrinsically different, with its own mission and goals. This study aims to explore how mission statements make the difference… Show more

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“…They have long shaped the School's identity and continue bringing together and guiding our academic community. [Belgium] Among the most recurring values found, the occurrence of "Excellence" and "Integrity" are in line with other studies (Breznik andLaw, 2019, p. 1370) in which words such as "Quality", "Excellence", "Learn", were connected to the cluster of social responsibility. In the present study, the word "Integrity" was found to be associated with both transparency of process and with rigour and responsibility, connecting it with ethical values, as can be seen in the following extracts:…”
Section: ) Valuessupporting
confidence: 88%
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“…They have long shaped the School's identity and continue bringing together and guiding our academic community. [Belgium] Among the most recurring values found, the occurrence of "Excellence" and "Integrity" are in line with other studies (Breznik andLaw, 2019, p. 1370) in which words such as "Quality", "Excellence", "Learn", were connected to the cluster of social responsibility. In the present study, the word "Integrity" was found to be associated with both transparency of process and with rigour and responsibility, connecting it with ethical values, as can be seen in the following extracts:…”
Section: ) Valuessupporting
confidence: 88%
“…Moreover, the study concluded that the mission statement has not significant influence on the performance of schools appearing in the "FT" rankings (Mazurek et al, 2020). A more exploratory study, which selected the top 250 higher education institutions according to the Times Higher Education, extracted and analysed 201 mission statements, to find their key value dimensions and how they are correlated with the organizational strategy of the selected institutions (Breznik and Law, 2019). First, a text-mining technique was used to count the occurrence of specific keywords, followed by a network analysis to study the relations and dimensions of the keywords found.…”
Section: 2mission Statements In Higher Educationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…3 Breznik and Law (2019) conducted a content analysis of the mission statements of the top 250 universities worldwide. 4 In the Coffee Club, students from different academic levels and academic staff, including both traditional and nontraditional students, shared their experiences with each other.…”
Section: E N D N Ote Smentioning
confidence: 99%
“… Breznik and Law (2019) conducted a content analysis of the mission statements of the top 250 universities worldwide. …”
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confidence: 99%
“…Methodologically, this article takes the previous content analysis described above and applies network analytic techniques to the data. Similar empirical methods have been used to examine the networked properties of mission statements using data from content analysis (Breznik and Law 2019;Law and Breznik 2018). The study of networks is a broadly applicable theory and method for understanding the patterned occurrences of phenomena as diverse as neurons, friendships, smoking behaviors, and happiness (McPherson, Smith-Lovin, and Cook 2001;Watts and Strogatz 1998;Fowler and Christakis 2008;Mercken et al 2010).…”
Section: Data and Analytic Strategymentioning
confidence: 99%