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Global Opportunities and Institutional Embeddedness Higher Education Consortia in Europe and Southeast Asia
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In this paper, Parkhe et al. analyzed the effect of inter-organisational diversity on the success of higher education consortia and explored the ways in which the management of these consorties can improve the levels of complementarity and compatibility.Abstract:
As a response to processes of globalisation and regional integration, internationalisation activities in universities have changed. Flows have become more massive, the range of activities has broadened, and internationalisation has shifted from a marginal activity to a central institutional issue with strategic importance. These shifts can also be observed in international cooperation among universities. One of the manifestations of this shift is the increase and change of inter organisational arrangements in higher education. One type of such arrangements – higher education consortia – (a term that will be further defined in the paper) are analysed in detail in the study. This analysis takes inter-organisational diversity as a starting point (Parkhe, 1991). The basic thesis is that partners need to be similar, yet different, or in other words, there needs to be sufficient complementarity as well as sufficient compatibility among the participating universities. This thesis is based on two different perspectives on universities. The Resource Based View (Wernerfelt, 1984; Barney, 1991) argues that organisations cooperate in order to gain access to complementary resources, which they need to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. Embeddedness theories (e.g. Zukin and DiMaggio, 1990) and institutional theories (e.g. Uzzi, 1997; Scott, 1995) argue that organisations are embedded in and shaped by their (national) institutional context. From this viewpoint, cooperation between partners will be hindered if such institutional backgrounds are incompatible with each other. It is argued that consortia which show a high level of both complementarity and compatibility, will be most successful. Also the paper explores the ways in which the management of consortia can improve the levels of complementarity and compatibility.read more
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