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Organizational Boundaries: Where are they?

June 8, 2010

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I have been reading about organizational structure of higher education organizations as part of the background reading for a paper I am working on and it got me thinking about organizational boundaries and how it relates to the key players involved in organizations. When thinking about for-profit businesses there are three key constituencies which come… [Read more…]

The privatization of higher education, is it really happening?

March 9, 2010

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Over the past 30 years or so the argument that public higher education is becoming privatized has become an accepted fact. However, less attention has been focused on how, why and to what extent these colleges and universities are actually pursuing more “private” means of sustaining themselves as various types of government support has declined.… [Read more…]

The sector divisions and organizational identities

January 18, 2010

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It has occurred to me in the course of revising a work in progress that in the general literature on organizations there is surprisingly little discussion of sector differences or governance differences as mediating or conditioning the impacts of some of our fundamental theories. Neoinstitutionalism, resource dependency and population ecology are just some theories or… [Read more…]

Introduction: Sondra Barringer

January 15, 2010

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Hello everyone, welcome to our venture into the blogging world. My name is Sondra Barringer and I am currently a fourth year student in the Sociology Department at the University of Arizona, working on my doctoral dissertation. My fellow bloggers and I had the pleasure of meeting at the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community… [Read more…]