In person icon How Do Universities Die? Organizational Resilience, Death and Afterlife in Higher Education

Abstract

Universities are survival experts. Despite the common trope that universities are difficult to reform, they have shown a high level of adaptability and resilience since their formal organization in the 13th century. Still, the success story of higher education as a global institution is scattered by gravestones of universities that died along the way, especially private endeavours. The panel invites contributions that shed light on how universities as organizations adapt to changing environmental pressures, transform organizational/institutional roles, how they fail, close, or continue in a different form in their organizational afterlife.

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