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Nested hybridity and value definition in public higher education : a conceptual view

Publiceringsår

2021

Upphovspersoner

Pekkola, Elias; Pinheiro, Rómulo Miguel; Geschwind, Lars; Siekkinen, Taru; Carvalho, Teresa; Pulkkinen, Kirsi

Abstrakt

In this article, we explore multilevel hybridity in higher education (HE) systems, particularly the effects of marketisation on publicly funded universities. Based on current literature, we analyse how government policies and mechanisms nurture the hybrid-operating context of universities, as well as how policies and organisational and professional practices create new hybrid positions in the HE organisational field and influence academic leaders’ positions. We introduce the concept of nested hybridity, where systems at different levels are embedded and interconnected. Many changes either foster or hinder hybridity not only at national or organisational levels but also at professional practices and work descriptions level. Applying Noordegraaf’s (2015) levels of professional work, we describe work in an academic community as the microsystem, the organisation of academic work in work descriptions and managerial dyads as the mesosystem, institutional logics and policies as the exosystem and the HE system as the macrosystem. Hybrid logics of value definition and production involve a competition between formal and substantive rationalities. Positions and work descriptions of academics, para-academics and other professionals in HE institutions are not the entities in which the value is created. However, the work descriptions form the nucleus for the definition of organisational value-creation processes. New types of professional practices embodied in work descriptions and positions cement the authority structure in the organisational value-creation process. The hybridity of different substantive rationalities or the alignment of formal and substantive rationalities needs to occur at the level of individual professionals in order to have an impact on the primary value-creation processes.
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Organisationer och upphovspersoner

Jyväskylä universitet

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Publikationstyp

Publikationsform

Artikel

Moderpublikationens typ

Samlingsverk

Artikelstyp

Annan artikel

Målgrupp

Vetenskaplig

Kollegialt utvärderad

Kollegialt utvärderad

UKM:s publikationstyp

A3 Del av bok eller annat samlingsverk

Publikationskanalens uppgifter

Förläggare

Routledge

Sidor

59-80

Publikationsforum

5876

Publikationsforumsnivå

3

Öppen tillgång

Öppen tillgänglighet i förläggarens tjänst

Nej

Parallellsparad

Nej

Övriga uppgifter

Vetenskapsområden

Nationalekonomi; Pedagogik

Nyckelord

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Publiceringsland

Förenade kungariket

Förlagets internationalitet

Internationell

Språk

engelska

Internationell sampublikation

Ja

Sampublikation med ett företag

Nej

DOI

10.4324/9780429286247-6

Publikationen ingår i undervisnings- och kulturministeriets datainsamling

Ja