The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education Systems and University Management

• Part I: Education and Societal Evolution


• 1: Gordon Redding, Antony Drew, and Stephen Crump: The Description and Comparison of Societal Systems of Higher Education and University Management


• 2: Gordon Redding: Criticality, Academic Autonomy, and Societal Progress


• 3: Michael H. Bond and Yiming Jing: Socializing Human Capital for 21st Century Educational Goals: Suggestive Empirical Findings from Multi-National Research


• 4: Richard Whitley: Changing the Nature and Role of Universities: The Effects of Funding and Governance Reforms on Universities as Accountable Actors


• Part II: Strategic Autonomy and the Main University Types


• 5: Gabriel Donleavy and K. C. Chen: Recent Trends in East and West University Governance: Two Kinds of Hollowness


• 6: Svetlana Gudkova, Anna Pikos, and Valentyna Guminska: Cycles of Evolution of Ideal Types of Universities: Causes and Consequences for the University Mission - The Case of Poland


• 7: Celia Whitchurch: The Implications of a Diversifying Workforce for Institutional Governance and Management in Higher Education


• 8: David Palfreyman and Ted Tapper: The Collegial Tradition in English Higher Education: What Is It, What Sustains It, and How Viable Is Its Future?


• 9: Gordon Redding: Managing a University in Turbulent Times


• Part III: Large Scale Changes and Their Implications


• 10: Antony Drew, Gordon Redding, and Trevor Harley: Critical Factors and Forces Influencing Higher Education in the 21st Century


• 11: Liam Phelan, Antony Drew and Andrew Yardy: A New World of Communications in Higher Education and Its Implications


• 12: Maurits van Rooijen: Leading in Higher Education


• 13: Ewart Keep: Policy and Practice in University-Business Relations

Gordon Redding is a British professor, academic, author, editor, and consultant. Currently Senior Advisor to the HEAD Foundation (Human Capital and Education for Asian Development) in Singapore, he is a specialist on China and the regional ethnic Chinese, and also works on the comparison of different systems of capitalism, and on the role of education in societal development. Previously Director of the Euro-Asia Centre of INSEAD in France and founder and director of the HKU Business School (now the Faculty of Business and Economics) at the University of Hong Kong, he now holds a Visiting Professorial Fellowship at the Institute of Education, University College London.

Antony Drew is Assistant Dean International at The University of Newcastle, Australia, representing its work in global alliances, inbound and outbound student mobility, and international research collaboration. His research focus is in institutional theory, economic sociology, and international business, and in developing a theoretical framework for better analysing how informal business institutions evolve over time in different polities.


Stephen Crump is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at The University of Melbourne and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania. His previous positions include inaugural Head of School of Professional Studies and Director for the Centre for Regional Studies at the University of Sydney, and Pro Vice-Chancellor - External Relations at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has also done extensive consultancy work and international visiting positions in the USA, UK, Netherlands, and Sweden.

This impressive, wide ranging collection is built around the theme that higher education, as well as inspiring change, should, especially among students, build capacity to adapt well to change. The editors and contributors challenge university managers to seize the agenda related to these new roles, in particular to devise new, innovative, and relevant management strategies only then can universities contribute meaningfully to change and continuity in contemporary societies. As this volume is a rich source of information and offers insights on many diverse systems of higher education and their challenges in governance and management, it will become required reading for higher education specialists. S. Gopinathan, Adjunct Professor, National University of Singapore