Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 23rd ANZAM Conference 2009 |
| Subtitle of host publication | proceedings |
| Editors | Nicholas Beaumont |
| Publisher | Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1863081577 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| Event | Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (23rd : 2009) - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 1 Dec 2009 → 4 Dec 2009 |
Conference
| Conference | Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (23rd : 2009) |
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| Country/Territory | Australia |
| City | Melbourne |
| Period | 1/12/09 → 4/12/09 |
Keywords
- critical social theory
- organisation change
- managerialism
- critical management
- higher education