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TY - JOUR
T1 - Eliciting the Institutional Myth
T2 - exploring the ethos of the university in Germany and England
AU - Budd, Richard
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in European Journal of Higher Education on 6th September 2017, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21568235.2017.1358100
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This paper is situated in relation to a critical mass of largely censorious commentary around global policy trends purportedly undermining, or even realigning, universities’ ‘traditional’ ethos, but where the student perspective on this appears to have been largely ignored. Drawing on interviews with German and English undergraduates, it applies the neo-institutional theory of organizational fields supported by regulative, cognitive, and normative pillars (Scott 1995. Institutions and Organizations. Thousand Oaks: Sage). The latter pillar, representing a sector’s values, methods, and goals, is of particular interest here, and it will be argued that this and an ethos may correspond. The findings show that a sense of the participants’ understanding of a university ethos/normative pillar could be discerned, with significant convergence between the two groups. However at the same time there was also divergence both within and between them, and this raises a number of novel empirical and theoretical questions.
AB - This paper is situated in relation to a critical mass of largely censorious commentary around global policy trends purportedly undermining, or even realigning, universities’ ‘traditional’ ethos, but where the student perspective on this appears to have been largely ignored. Drawing on interviews with German and English undergraduates, it applies the neo-institutional theory of organizational fields supported by regulative, cognitive, and normative pillars (Scott 1995. Institutions and Organizations. Thousand Oaks: Sage). The latter pillar, representing a sector’s values, methods, and goals, is of particular interest here, and it will be argued that this and an ethos may correspond. The findings show that a sense of the participants’ understanding of a university ethos/normative pillar could be discerned, with significant convergence between the two groups. However at the same time there was also divergence both within and between them, and this raises a number of novel empirical and theoretical questions.
U2 - 10.1080/21568235.2017.1358100
DO - 10.1080/21568235.2017.1358100
M3 - Journal article
VL - 8
SP - 135
EP - 151
JO - European Journal of Higher Education
JF - European Journal of Higher Education
SN - 2156-8235
IS - 2
ER -