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Hybridity Through Transitions: Crisis and Resilience in Nordic Universities: Educational Leadership and Leaders in Contexts, cartea 9

Elias Pekkola, Luiz Alonso de Andrade, Kerttu Kettunen, Stefan Lundborg
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Hybridity Through Transitions: Crisis and Resilience in Nordic Universities investigates how Nordic higher education institutions adapt to crises and long-term reforms by blending traditional academic values with market-oriented governance. Drawing on empirical studies from Finland, Sweden, and Norway, the book examines hybridity as both a structural condition and a resilience mechanism. It explores how universities respond to challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic, digitalisation, and marketisation, offering a conceptual and comparative framework for understanding institutional transformation. This timely volume is essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners interested in the evolving landscape of higher education governance and the future of academic institutions.

Contributors are: Luiz Alonso de Andrade, Michael Oduro Asante, Lars Geschwind, Tina Hedmo, Jan-Erik Johanson, Henna Juusola, Kerttu Kettunen, Tommi Kärkkäinen, Harri Laihonen, Stefan Lundborg, Marjukka Mikkonen, Reetta Muhonen, Elias Pekkola, Motolani Peltola, Marc C. Perkins, Rómulo Pinheiro, Johanna Pöysä-Tarhonen, Tomi Rajala, Íris Santos, Taru Siekkinen, Cathrine Edelhard Tømte, Jarmo Vakkuri, Minni Virtanen and Caroline Waks.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004745179
ISBN-10: 9004745173
Pagini: 349
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Educational Leadership and Leaders in Contexts


Notă biografică

Elias Pekkola, PhD., is an Associate Professor of Security Governance at Tampere University, where he also serves as Vice Dean for Education in the Faculty of Management and Business. His research focuses on public administration, crisis management, and security governance. Dr. Pekkola has co-edited several books and contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications. His recent work includes studies on leadership in crisis resilience and the dynamics of public administration in complex hybrid environments

Luiz Alonso de Andrade, PhD., is a researcher and university teacher at the administrative sciences unit in the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland. Luiz's recent research targets digitalisation and hybridity in higher education, social security policy, bureaucratic decision-making, and digital self-services. Luiz also worked as a manager in Brazilian national social security, where he led collaborative governance and digitalisation projects.

Kerttu Kettunen (DSc) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Innovation at the University of Agder School of Business and Law. Her research spans organization theory, marketing studies, and higher education. She is particularly interested in the history of management education, international accreditation processes, and the dynamics of competition among business schools. Her recent work focuses on how perceptions of corporate brand, reputation, status, and legitimacy are shaped by organizational stakeholders within social media communities. Kerttu has published in leading academic journals, including Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Management Inquiry, Scandinavian Journal of Management, and Studies in Higher Education.

Stefan Lundborg, PhD., is part of the Higher Education Organization Studies (HEOS) research group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and is the Chief Audit Executive of Örebro University. His research interests concern the academic profession and higher education governance.

Cuprins

Foreword
Mirko Noordegraaf
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors

PART 1: Hybridity in Nordic Higher Education



1 Hybridity in Higher Education as Resilience to Crises, Issues and Challenges
Elias Pekkola, Jan-Erik Johanson, Luiz Alonso de Andrade, Stefan Lundborg, Kerttu Kettunen and Minni Virtanen

2 Higher Education: Mongrel in the Making
Jan-Erik Johanson, Jarmo Vakkuri and Elias Pekkola

3 Emerging Hybridity in Higher Education: From Market-Inspired Educational Offerings towards Inclusive, Fluid Educational Spaces
Johanna Pöysä-Tarhonen

PART 2: Nordic Universities and Crisis



4 Hybridity Theory and Crisis: Observations from Finnish Higher Education Organizations in the Era of COVID-19
Marc C. Perkins

5 Trial by Fire: Management during Crisis in Swedish Higher Education Institutions
Stefan Lundborg and Lars Geschwind

6 From Remote to Hybrid Work: Managing New Forms of Work in Higher Education Institutions Post-COVID-19
Íris Santos, Elias Pekkola, Taru Siekkinen, Harri Laihonen and Motolani Peltola

7 Nested Hybridity in International Higher Education Collaboration during the Times of War: A Comparative Study of Finland and Sweden
Henna Juusola

8 Coping with Hybridity in Higher Education: The Impact of Digitalization on Teaching Practices
Cathrine Edelhard Tømte, Kerttu Kettunen, Michael Oduro Asante and Rómulo Pinheiro

9 Hybrid Roles in the Making: Analysing the Effects of Digitalisation on Academic Roles and Relations in Nordic Higher Education
Michael O. Asante, Rómulo Pinheiro, Kerttu Kettunen and Cathrine Edelhard Tømte

PART 3: Nordic Universities and Marketisation



10 Hybridity within Market-Based Accountability in Higher Education Teaching
Tomi Rajala

11 Increased Hybridity in the Policy Governing Academic Leadership Positions: The Role of Head of Department in Swedish Public Universities
Tina Hedmo and Caroline Waks

12 As a Dean, You Are Stuck between the Top Management and Academia, a Bit Like the Patty in a Hamburger: Hybrid Roles of Academic Middle Managers in Finnish Universities
Taru Siekkinen, Elias Pekkola and Íris Santos

13 The Hybrid Values in Universities of Applied Sciences: Board Members’ Perspectives
Marjukka Mikkonen, Elias Pekkola, Luiz Alonso de Andrade and Jan-Erik Johanson

14 Balancing with Academic Perspectives in Knowledge Brokering – Arranging the Hybridity of Knowledge Brokering Organisations
Tommi Kärkkäinen and Reetta Muhonen

PART 4: Conclusions



15 Defining and Typologising Hybridity: Resilience Mechanisms and Crises Responses in Nordic Higher Education
Elias Pekkola, Luiz Alonso de Andrade, Stefan Lundborg, Kerttu Kettunen, Taru Siekkinen, and Minni Virtanen

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