This paper demonstrates how the choice of instrument facilitates acceptance of a new accountability requirement in the Ontario university sector as it helps balance the government’s need for control with the universities’ need for independence. The instrument, conceptualized as an agreement, embodies the negotiated character of the relationship between government and universities, and conveys the idea to different actors that their needs are met. Despite the promises of the instrument, when objectives are ambiguous, uncertainty is pervasive, and negotiation is limited, the increase in government control is minimized and the changes in university autonomy are negligible, thus suggesting...
Purpose This article studies the tensions between universities' accountability and autonomy in respo...
Policy-makers and institutional administrators have long struggled with the question of college and ...
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the Ontario-led strategic mandate agreement (SMA) plann...
This doctoral thesis analyzes the introduction, development, evolution and impacts of the Multi-Year...
Much literature focusing on the academy is concerned with the spread of neo-liberalism into the univ...
Much literature focusing on the academy is concerned with the spread of neo-liberalism into the univ...
Much literature focusing on the academy is concerned with the spread of neo-liberalism into the univ...
In order to fulfill their missions, research universities must maintain conditions and capacity for ...
In order to fulfill their missions, research universities must maintain conditions and capacity for ...
In order to fulfill their missions, research universities must maintain conditions and capacity for ...
Accountability is far from a new aspect of higher education policy arrangements in Canada. Historica...
Knowledge societies have expectations of universities, and it has been suggested that autonomy contr...
Governments in Western liberal democracies, such as Ontario, have increasingly used policy tools to ...
Purpose This article studies the tensions between universities' accountability and autonomy in respo...
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the Ontario-led strategic mandate agreement (SMA) plann...
Purpose This article studies the tensions between universities' accountability and autonomy in respo...
Policy-makers and institutional administrators have long struggled with the question of college and ...
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the Ontario-led strategic mandate agreement (SMA) plann...
This doctoral thesis analyzes the introduction, development, evolution and impacts of the Multi-Year...
Much literature focusing on the academy is concerned with the spread of neo-liberalism into the univ...
Much literature focusing on the academy is concerned with the spread of neo-liberalism into the univ...
Much literature focusing on the academy is concerned with the spread of neo-liberalism into the univ...
In order to fulfill their missions, research universities must maintain conditions and capacity for ...
In order to fulfill their missions, research universities must maintain conditions and capacity for ...
In order to fulfill their missions, research universities must maintain conditions and capacity for ...
Accountability is far from a new aspect of higher education policy arrangements in Canada. Historica...
Knowledge societies have expectations of universities, and it has been suggested that autonomy contr...
Governments in Western liberal democracies, such as Ontario, have increasingly used policy tools to ...
Purpose This article studies the tensions between universities' accountability and autonomy in respo...
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the Ontario-led strategic mandate agreement (SMA) plann...
Purpose This article studies the tensions between universities' accountability and autonomy in respo...
Policy-makers and institutional administrators have long struggled with the question of college and ...
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the Ontario-led strategic mandate agreement (SMA) plann...