Hungarian universities in Mintzberg's model

Hungarian universities, just like all the higher education institutions all over the world, face a number of challenges that inevitably entail a change in their structure and operation. To manage the necessary changes successfully we have to understand the structure and operation of the institutions. We can do it in a more systematic way if it is carried out within the framework of the descriptive models that have been applied in organization science for a long time now. In my study 1 applied Henry Mintzberg's typology to characterize Hungarian universities. On the basis of Mintzberg's model we can conclude that Hungarian universities today are professional bureaucracies with all the shortcomings of this type of organizations