- Title
- Evaluating change in the Australian higher education system: a critical theory perspective
- Creator
- Ryan, Suzanne; Guthrie, James
- Relation
- 23rd ANZAM Conference 2009: Sustainability, Management and Marketing (ANZAM 2009). Proceedings of the 23rd ANZAM Conference: Sustainability, Management and Marketing (Melbourne 1-4 December, 2009)
- Relation
- http://www.anzamconference.org
- Publisher
- Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- The paper questions whether the Australian Higher Education System has been colonised away from the traditional ‘idea of a university’ as a social institution to a new identity as an economic institution. Adapting concepts based on Habermas’ critical theory to the level of an organisation, a framework for analysing organisational change is applied to higher education to examine the question of colonisation. While judgments of colonisation have been made on the bases of the magnitude of external pressures and the types of changes within the system, the type of change is less certain when internal power dependencies and the perspective of academics is taken into account.
- Subject
- critical social theory; organisation change; managerialism; critical management; higher education
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/919494
- Identifier
- uon:8887
- Identifier
- ISBN:1863081577
- Language
- eng
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