ERIC Number: ED140754
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1977
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The University as an Organization: System and Environment. Current Projects. Educational Development: Information on Research and Development in Post-Secondary Education.
National Swedish Board of Universities and Colleges, Stockholm. Research and Development Unit.
The transition from an elite university to a mass university has characterized modern university life. The purely quantitative development has been accompanied by a number of changes in the decisionmaking system in higher education. No systematic comparative studies exist of the development of the decisionmaking system. A project is under way at the University of Umea in Sweden to: (1) formulate a theory of the decisionmaking system by means of which the changes in higher education can be analyzed, and (2) apply and illustrate the theory in a few studies. Autonomy and influence patterns will be major considerations in the studies. A final report will be presented in 1978. (MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Institutional Autonomy, Operations Research, Power Structure, Social Change, Systems Analysis, Systems Approach, Theories, Universities
R & D Unit, The National Board of Universities and Colleges, P.O. Box 16334, S-103 26 Stockholm, Sweden
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Authoring Institution: National Swedish Board of Universities and Colleges, Stockholm. Research and Development Unit.
Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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