Sub-theme 23: Public Sector Reforms and Organizational Responses: Comparing Universities and Hospitals

Convenors:
Rómulo Pinheiro, University of Agder and Agderforskning, Norway
Francisco O. Ramirez, Stanford University, USA
Karsten Vrangbæk, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Session I: Thursday, July 03, 11:00 to 12:30, T3-39
Institutional Logics in Higher Education
Chair: Francisco Ramirez
Joshua T. Brown
Organizational change in Catholic and Protestant universities: A further understanding of the institutional logic of religion
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Tatiana Fumasoli
Tatiana Fumasoli
Shifting organizational routines, multiple logics. The case of academic recruitment
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Joshua Brown
S. Kubra Canhilal and Benedetto Lepori
Between managerialism and professional culture. A comparative study of European universities
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Mantas Vilkas
Mantas Vilkas and Egle Katiliute
Blending of conflicting institutional logics through balancing of countervailing processes: The case of higher education institution
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): S. Kubra Canhilal
Session II: Thursday, July 03, 14:00 to 15:30, T3-39
Organizational Change & Resistance
Chair: Romulo Pinheiro
Marek Kwiek
University reforms vs. academic beliefs and attitudes. Towards universities as organizations
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Kutay Gunestepe
Kutay Günestepe and Deniz Tunçalp
Quest for an alternative: Resistance repertoire of the "Assistants' Solidarity" movement in two Turkish universities
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Marek Kwiek
Balázs Heidrich and Nick Chandler
Face the change/change the face: Subcultural responses to institutional change in Hungarian higher education
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Lars Geschwind
Lars Geschwind
Why change? The rationale for major organisational change in higher education institutions
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Nick Chandler
Session III: Thursday, July 03, 16:00 to 17:30, T3-39
Transformation & Renewal
Chair: Karsten Vrangbæk
Jürgen Deeg
Reformed or deformed? The unending renewal of the public university between unintended consequences and unexpected challenges
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Ferdinand Bodo Wenzlaff
Markus Reihlen and Ferdinand Wenzlaff
From institutional contradictions to organizational transformation: A case study of a university merger
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Jürgen Deeg
Noora Jansson
Strategy text as a discursive practice in organizational change
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Jessica Chromik
Jessica Chromik
Openness to institutional change in professional organizations: Altered task responsibilities in German university hospitals
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Noora Jansson
Session IV: Friday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, T3-39
Hybrids and Hybridization
Chair: Karsten Vrangbæk
Lucilaine Pascuci, Victor Meyer Jr. and Diórgenes Falcão Mamédio
Managerialism in nonprofit hospitals: experiencing strategic practices in complex and hybrid organizations
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Marco Sartirana
Marco Sartirana, Graeme Currie and Mirko Noordegraaf
Uncovering the role of interdependencies in the hybridization of medical managers: a hospital case study
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Victor Meyer Jr.
Corinne Grenier, Christelle Zeller and Johan Bernardini-Perinciolo
Logics hybridization within construction of negociated order: Comparing interplay within French hospitals and universities
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Elisabeth Noehammer
Elisabeth Nöhammer, Gertrude Hamader and Harald Stummer
Coping in system-induced paradoxes: the example of hospitals in Austria
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Corinne Grenier
Session V: Friday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30, T3-39
Organizational Scripts & Isomorphism
Chair: Romulo Pinheiro
Tanja Klenk and Markus Seyfried
Institutional isomorphism and quality management: Comparing hospitals and universities
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Enno Aljets
Francisco O. Ramirez, Haldor Byrkjeflot and Rómulo Pinheiro
Higher education and health organizational fields in the age of "world class and "best practices"
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Tanja Klenk
Hokyu Hwang, Yong Suk Jang, Bokyoung Kim and Hee Jin Cho
The rationalization of Korean universities
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Rómulo Pinheiro
Enno Aljets and Frank Meier
Constructing organizational profiles
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Hokyu Hwang
Session VI: Saturday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, T3-39
Changing Professions
Chair: Francisco Ramirez
and Teresa Carvalho
Transforming professional bureaucracies in hospitals and higher education institutions
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Maximiliane Wilkesmann
Maximiliane Wilkesmann
Breaking up princedoms in German hospitals – Professions under pressure
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Teresa Carvalho
Rui Gomes Santiago
New organizational control and regulation regimes of the academics, doctors and nurses professional work: The techniques of domination and the techniques of self in the Portuguese context
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Katharina Kreissl
Katharina Kreissl, Angelika Striedinger, Johanna Hofbauer and Birgit Sauer
Complex constellations: Institutional logics and gender equality at Austrian universities
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Rui Gomes Santiago
Session VII: Saturday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, T3-39
Change & Evolution
Chair: Lars Geschwind
Marian Thunnissen and Ben Fruytier
Mobilizing human capital in academia: A review of 25 years of human resources management in Dutch universities
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Tatiana Fumasoli
Thomas Andersson and Christian Gadolin
Distributed leadership in healthcare: Post-NPM in action
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Yuzhuo Cai
Yuzhuo Cai, Kai Rao and Han Zhang
Evolution of technology transformation organizations in Chinese universities
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Valentina Goglio
Valentina Goglio and Paolo Parigi
An institutional mechanism to reduce internal competition? A hypothesis about the diffusion of satellite universities in Italy
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Marian Thunnissen