Summary
Contents
This invaluable source book offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributions provide rich, personal, sometimes poignant and often humorous accounts of shared and unique experiences of those in the world of academia.
The Changing Role of the Business School's Environment: The Threat-Rigidity Response is Real
The Changing Role of the Business School's Environment: The Threat-Rigidity Response is Real
Bill Mobley has provided an excellent overview of the changing institutional context of universities from his perspective as a former university president. My remarks are from the perspective of a former provost/senior vice president for academic affairs. The provost is the chief operating officer primarily responsible for all academic activities in the university. If the university's environment is less benign and more crisis oriented, then the business school's environment will become more turbulent and hostile. Threat-rigidity theory would predict that there will be pressures in the university environment to centralize decision making, pull resources back to the central administration, ...
