Institutional logics influencing the engagement of academics in internationalization at the School of Management, University of Tampere
Calugareanu, Simona (2015)
2015
MDP in Research and Innovation in Higher Education
Johtamiskorkeakoulu - School of Management
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2015-07-03
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:uta-201507312200
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:uta-201507312200
Tiivistelmä
Internationalization has become an essential component of higher education. Pressured by the globalization forces and the new requests of the knowledge society, universities deploy wide-spread initiatives to successfully implement internationalization in all their areas. But in order to be successful, it is crucial for a university to have committed institutional leadership, and to know how to engage its academics in the process internationalization. The relation existent be-tween the two factors, their degree of communication, as well as the degree to which they influence each other is fundamental for the successful implementation of internationalization. The current study explores aspects of the relation between the two factors by looking at how the institutional logics related with internationalization influence the engagement of academics in internationalization in the context of the School of Management, University of Tampere.
This study implies a qualitative exploratory case study research design. The School of Management, University of Tampere has been chosen as the site of the research. The sampling techniques used were the purposive sampling, along with the snowball technique. Data was collect-ed through qualitative, semi-structured interviews. An analytical framework has been designed on the basis of the literature for the analysis of the data.
The findings of the study bring to light important aspects of how internationalization is perceived in this specific context, what interests the academics interviewed have in internationalization, as well as that not all institutional logics related to internationalization influence the academics’ engagement in it. Different degrees of influence have been perceived to be exercised by the multiple institutional logics related with internationalization identified to have an influence upon academics’ engagement in the School of Management, University of Tampere. The study revealed that the institutional logics which mostly influenced the perceptions and interests of academics, exercised the biggest influence upon their engagement in internationalization as well.
This study implies a qualitative exploratory case study research design. The School of Management, University of Tampere has been chosen as the site of the research. The sampling techniques used were the purposive sampling, along with the snowball technique. Data was collect-ed through qualitative, semi-structured interviews. An analytical framework has been designed on the basis of the literature for the analysis of the data.
The findings of the study bring to light important aspects of how internationalization is perceived in this specific context, what interests the academics interviewed have in internationalization, as well as that not all institutional logics related to internationalization influence the academics’ engagement in it. Different degrees of influence have been perceived to be exercised by the multiple institutional logics related with internationalization identified to have an influence upon academics’ engagement in the School of Management, University of Tampere. The study revealed that the institutional logics which mostly influenced the perceptions and interests of academics, exercised the biggest influence upon their engagement in internationalization as well.