Report - European Science Foundation

Contents
Higher Education and its Communities: Interconnections and Interdependencies 39
Ben Jongbloed, Jürgen Enders and Carlo Salerno
1. Introduction 40
2. On Communities, Stakeholders and Missions 41
3. Stakeholder Theory 43
4. Community Engagement, The Third Mission 46
5. Expanding the Research Mission: Outreach to Business and Communities 47
6. Indicators for Community Engagement 49
7. Barriers to Community Engagement 50
8. On Governance, Accountability and Corporate Social Responsibility 52
9. Conclusions and Suggestions for Further Research 54
The ‘Steering’ of Higher Education Systems: A Public Management Perspective 59
Ewan Ferlie, Christine Musselin and Gianluca Andresani
1. How Higher Education Governance has been Analyzed 61
1.1 Three Main Conceptions of Higher Education Governance and Higher Education Policies
1.2 The Study of Higher Education Systems is often Limited to State-university Relationships
2. Three Possible Redefinitions of the Role of the Nation State which Affected Higher Education 63
2.1 A Stronger Management of the Public Sector
2.2 The ‘Hollowing Out’ of the Nation State
2.3 The Democratic Revitalisation
3. Three Main Narratives of Public Sector Reforming and How They Apply to Higher Education 67
3.1 The New Public Management
3.2 Network Governance Narrative
3.3 The Neo Weberian Narrative
4. Further Perspectives 71
4.1 Deepening the Reflection on the Three Narratives
4.2 The Higher Education Governance Reforms and a Research Base
4.3 Towards the Dismissal of Public Governance in Higher Education?
5. Concluding Discussion 75
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