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UNIVERSITY COLLEGIALITY AND THE EROSION OF FACULTY AUTHORITY

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS

Series Editor: Michael Lounsbury

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS ADVISORY BOARD

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• Michael Lounsbury

• Professor of Strategic Management & Organization

• University of Alberta School of Business

RSO Advisory Board

• Howard E. Aldrich, University of North Carolina, USA

• Shaz Ansari, Cambridge University, UK

• Silvia Dorado Banacloche, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

• Christine Beckman, University of Southern California, USA

• Marya Besharov, Oxford University, UK

• Eva Boxenbaum, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

• Ed Carberry, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

• Lisa Cohen, McGill University, Canada

• Jeannette Colyvas, Northwestern University, USA

• Erica Coslor, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Gerald F. Davis, University of Michigan, USA

• Rich Dejordy, California State University, USA

• Rodolphe Durand, HEC Paris, France

• Fabrizio Ferraro, IESE Business School, Spain

• Peer Fiss, University of Southern California, USA

• Mary Ann Glynn, Boston College, USA

• Nina Granqvist, Aalto University School of Business, Finland

• Royston Greenwood, University of Alberta, Canada

• Stine Grodal, Northeastern University, USA

• Markus A. Hoellerer, University of New South Wales, Australia

• Ruthanne Huising, Emlyon Business School, France

• Candace Jones, University of Edinburgh, UK

• Sarah Kaplan, University of Toronto, Canada

• Brayden G. King, Northwestern University, USA

• Matthew S. Kraatz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Tom Lawrence, Oxford University, UK

• Xiaowei Rose Luo, Insead, France

• Johanna Mair, Hertie School, Germany

• Christopher Marquis, Cambridge University, UK

• Renate Meyer, Vienna University, Austria

• William Ocasio, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Nelson Phillips, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

• Prateek Raj, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India

• Marc Schneiberg, Reed College, USA

• Marc-David Seidel, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Paul Spee, University of Queensland, Australia

• Paul Tracey, Cambridge University, UK

• Kerstin Sahlin, Uppsala University, Sweden

• Sarah Soule, Stanford University, USA

• Eero Vaara, University of Oxford, UK

• Marc Ventresca, University of Oxford, UK

• Maxim Voronov, York University, Canada

• Filippo Carlo Wezel USI Lugano, Switzerland

• Melissa Wooten, Rutgers University, USA

• April Wright, University of Queensland, Australia

• Meng Zhao, Nanyang Business School & Renmin University, China

• Enying Zheng, Peking University, China

• Tammar B. Zilber, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS, VOLUME 86

UNIVERSITY COLLEGIALITY AND THE EROSION OF FACULTY AUTHORITY

EDITED BY

KERSTIN SAHLIN

Uppsala University, Sweden

and

ULLA ERIKSSON-ZETTERQUIST

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

List of Figures and Tables

About the Editors

Kerstin Sahlin is since 2000 Professor of Public Management in the Department of Business. Studies at Uppsala University. Prior to her position at Uppsala, Kerstin Sahlin was Professor in Public Management at Stockholm University and the Director for the Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE). Professor Sahlin received her PhD from Umeå University and has also held positions at the Stockholm School of Economics. She has been a visiting researcher at Stanford University and a number of other institutions. Kerstin Sahlin has held a number of academic leadership positions. She has been Vice president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2019–2022), Secretary General of Humanities and Social Sciences (2013–2018), and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University (2006–2011). Her major research interests include decision-making on complex projects, the expansion and translation of management ideas, organizational reforms of public sector, transnational regulation, and more recently university governance and collegiality. Her research is largely based in new institutional theory. She has published several edited volumes, books, and articles. She is currently Chair of the Research Program WASP-HS (The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program–Humanities and Society).

Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist is since 2010 Professor in Organization Theory and Management at the Gothenburg Research Institute (GRI), and at the Department for Business Administration, School of Business, Economics, and Law, University of Gothenburg. She has been Visiting Scholar at SCANCOR Stanford (Spring 2010), SCANCOR Harvard (Fall 2016), and Visiting Professor at Uppsala University in 2013. Between 2012 and 2023 she served as the Director of GRI. During 2014 and 2015 she was the Chair of the Swedish Academy of Business and Management. She has been active as Associated Editor for the journal Gender, Work and Organization between the years of 2004 and 2020. Since 2017 she is heading the research program Managing Digital Transformations. Her research interests concern organizing, governance in professional organizations, diversity and inclusion, and digitalization. These themes have been explored in a variety of organizations, both in private and public sectors, for instance, in multinational corporations, the automotive industry, the public school, and the Swedish Defense Authority. She has published in the field of organization theory and management studies, including journal articles, research monographs, and textbooks. Her latest book is edited with Magnus Hansson and Fredrik Nilsson (2020): Theories and Perspectives in Swedish Business Administration Studies.

About the Contributors

Nico Cloete is Professor at the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST), Stellenbosch University. He is the Former Director of the Centre for Higher Education Trust (CHET) and a Guest Professor at the University of Oslo.

Lisa-Maria Gerhardt is a Research Associate and Doctoral Candidate at the Chair of Organization, Leadership and Human Resource Management at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. Her research interests include institutional theories, organizations, and higher education.

Jan Goldenstein is a Research Associate at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. His research interests include institutional theory, category research, social evaluation, market entry decisions, comparative international studies, and methodological research. He has published in journals such as Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management Studies, and Sociological Methodology.

Hampus Östh Gustafsson (PhD) is a Researcher at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University. His research is focused on the history of the humanities and universities, and the formation of modern politics of knowledge. Recent publications include articles in journals such as History of Humanities and History of Education Review.

Hokyu Hwang is a Professor in the School of Management and Governance, UNSW Business School, UNSW Sydney. His research examines the causes and consequences of organizational rationalization in a variety of contexts such as the non-profit sector, higher education, and local governments.

Anna Kosmützky is a Sociologist and Professor for the “Methodology of Higher Education and Science Research” at the Leibniz Center of Science and Society (LCSS), Leibniz University Hannover. Her research interests are in the areas of higher education research, science studies, and organization studies with a focus on methodological issues, globalization of higher education, and organizational and institutional change of universities.

Georg Krücken is Professor of the Sociology of Higher Education and Director of the International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER), both at the University of Kassel, Germany. He is one of the spokespersons of the research network “New Institutionalism” and a Member of Academia Europaea. His research interests include higher education research, science studies, organization studies, and neo-institutional theory.

Seungah S. Lee is a Senior Lecturer of Social Research and Public Policy at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research is primarily concerned with how nation-states and organizations adapt and contextualize global models and scripts around development, innovation, and entrepreneurship toward social, cultural, and educational change. She holds a PhD in Organization Studies and International Comparative Education from Stanford University.

Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford and Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE); Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education; and Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is a Member of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academies of Social Science in each of UK and Australia.

Simon Oertel is Professor of Strategic Management and Organization at Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Austria and Visiting Professor at TU Ilmenau, Germany. His research focuses on organization and management theories including research on organizational identity and organizational and institutional change. He has published in journals such as Business & Society, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Organization Studies, and Public Administration and Strategic Organization.

Pedro Pineda (Dr Phil., Humboldt University of Berlin) is Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the Department of Education, University of Bath. He specializes in the fields of comparative education, higher education, the sociology of education, and organizational studies.

Philipp Poschmann is a Research Associate at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. His research focuses on organizations, digital transformation, and technology. He has published his work in academic journals in the field of sociology and management.

Francisco O. Ramirez is the Vida Jacks Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology at Stanford University. His current research interests focus on the worldwide rationalization of university structures and processes, in terms of inclusion issues as regards gender and education, and on challenges to globalization. Recent publications may be found in Sociology of Education, Comparative Education Review, Social Forces, and International Sociology. He has been a Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Studies of the Behavioral Sciences (2006–2007), the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies (2017), and the Free University of Berlin, Cluster of Excellence Contestations of the Liberal Script (2022). He has been inducted into the honor societies of the American Sociological Association and the Comparative and International Education Society. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the Stanford Institute for International Studies.

Kerstin Sahlin is Professor of Public Management in the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University. Her major research interests include decision-making on complex projects, the expansion and translation of management ideas, organizational reforms of public sector, transnational regulation and more recently university governance and collegiality. She has been Vice President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Secretary General of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Swedish Research Council, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University.

Francois van Schalkwyk is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST), Stellenbosch University.

Peter Walgenbach is Professor of Organization, Leadership and HRM at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. He currently serves as a Senior Editor of Organization Studies. He has published widely in various fields and journals in management and organization studies.

Wen Wen is Associate Professor of Higher Education at Tsinghua University’s Institute of Education and Vice Director of the Division of Higher Education. Her recent research examines higher education internationalization, comparative and international higher education, and curriculum in higher education.

Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist is Professor in Organization Theory and Management at the Gothenburg Research Institute (GRI), and at the Department for Business Administration, School of Business, Economics, and Law, University of Gothenburg. She has been Visiting Scholar at SCANCOR Stanford, SCANCOR Harvard, and Visiting Professor at Uppsala University. Her research interests concern organizing, governance in professional organizations, diversity and inclusion, and digitalization. These themes have been explored in a variety of organizations, both in private and public sectors, for instance, in multinational corporations, the automotive industry, the public school, and the Swedish Defense Authority.

Foreword

Research in the Sociology of Organizations (RSO) publishes cutting edge empirical research and theoretical papers that seek to enhance our understanding of organizations and organizing as pervasive and fundamental aspects of society and economy. We seek provocative papers that push the frontiers of current conversations that help to revive old ones, or that incubate and develop new perspectives. Given its successes in this regard, RSO has become an impactful and indispensable fount of knowledge for scholars interested in organizational phenomena and theories. RSO is indexed and ranks highly in Scopus/SCImago as well as in the Academic Journal Guide published by the Chartered Association of Business Schools.

As one of the most vibrant areas in the social sciences, the sociology of organizations engages a plurality of empirical and theoretical approaches to enhance our understanding of the varied imperatives and challenges that these organizations and their organizers face. Of course, there is a diversity of formal and informal organizations—from for-profit entities to non-profits, state and public agencies, social enterprises, communal forms of organizing, non-governmental associations, trade associations, publicly traded, family owned and managed, private firms – the list goes on! Organizations, moreover, can vary dramatically in size from small entrepreneurial ventures to large multinational conglomerates to international governing bodies such as the United Nations.

Empirical topics addressed by Research in the Sociology of Organizations include: the formation, survival, and growth or organizations; collaboration and competition between organizations; the accumulation and management of resources and legitimacy; and how organizations or organizing efforts cope with a multitude of internal and external challenges and pressures. Particular interest is growing in the complexities of contemporary organizations as they cope with changing social expectations and as they seek to address societal problems related to corporate social responsibility, inequality, corruption and wrongdoing, and the challenge of new technologies. As a result, levels of analysis reach from the individual, to the organization, industry, community and field, and even the nation-state or world society. Much research is multi-level and embraces both qualitative and quantitative forms of data.

Diverse theory is employed or constructed to enhance our understanding of these topics. While anchored in the discipline of sociology and the field of management, Research in the Sociology of Organizations also welcomes theoretical engagement that draws on other disciplinary conversations – such as those in political science or economics, as well as work from diverse philosophical traditions. RSO scholarship has helped push forward a plethora theoretical conversations on institutions and institutional change, networks, practice, culture, power, inequality, social movements, categories, routines, organization design and change, configurational dynamics, and many other topics.

Each volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations tends to be thematically focused on a particular empirical phenomenon (e.g., creative industries, multinational corporations, entrepreneurship) or theoretical conversation (e.g., institutional logics, actors and agency, microfoundations). The series publishes papers by junior as well as leading international scholars, and embraces diversity on all dimensions. If you are a scholar interested in organizations or organizing, I hope you find Research in the Sociology of Organizations to be an invaluable resource as you develop your work.

Professor Michael Lounsbury

Series Editor, Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship & Innovation

University of Alberta