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College Merger And Reorganization Of The Theoretical And Empirical Research

Posted on:2004-11-02Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J R LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360122470676Subject:Management Science and Engineering
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Higher Education Management System Reform, implemented in China in 1990s, was called on to meet the need of the market economy. This reform sticks to the guidelines of gongjian(joint administration), tiaozheng(adjustment), hezuo (cooperation), and hebing(amalgamation), with adjustment and amalgamation as its essence. During the eight years from 1992 to 2001, a total of 597 institutions of higher learning have been amalgamated into 267. a cut of 330.This prevailing amalgamation was so eye-catching and controversial that it shocked people's hearts and evoked nationwide repercussions, especially when a batch of super-scale universities came into being in succession in about 1998.In recent years, researchers on higher education management have made great efforts on amalgamation study and published a great number of papers as the theoretical basis of further amalgamation reform. These papers provide not only valuable theories but also favorable consensus environment. However, they need further intensification and systematic reorganization.This dissertation focuses on the amalgamation among the institutions of higher learning in China and attempts to advance the research into the question in theoretical analysis and empirical studies. Taking Zhejiang University as an object of study, the dissertation tries to demonstrate a full view of its amalgamation: its essential steps, its characteristics and its essence. Some major problems such as resource reorganization, effect evaluation and multi-campus university management are given elaboration. In order to form a systematic study, the author's judgements, viewpoints and suggestions are syncretized into this dissertation. Meanwhile, a great quantity of documents and statistical data from wide-ranging surveys play supportive role in the dissertation.The contents of this dissertation are arranged as the following:Chapter One gives a brief introduction of the main purpose and research methods of this dissertation; summarizes the existing theoretical research achievements and controversies of different arguments in the field of amalgamation of institutions of higher learning.Chapter Two differentiates and identifies some concepts related to the research,which lays foreshadowing for the subsequent argumentative process of the dissertation.Chapter Three depicts the two large-scale amalgamations which took place among institutions of higher learning in 1950s and 1990s. The concrete and distinct depiction of these two historical reforms in our higher education enables us to see how these two amalgamations of different orientations took place and developed.Chapter Four widens our vision to keep abreast of the amalgamations that has taken place in the U.S, the U.K, Germany, Japan, Australia, Taiwan and Hong Kong. By comparative study, it is revealed that amalgamations among institutions of higher learning cater to the political, scientific and social developments in those countries and regions, and have been taken as a unique reaction to the social reforms on specific historical stages.Chapter Five analyzes the two reasons for amalgamation from two perspectives: macro perspective of government and micro one of institutions of higher learning. It also analyzes the attitudes that staff and students hold toward amalgamation.Chapter Six discusses the role our government plays in amalgamation. The whole chapter focuses on such problems as organizational properties of institutions of higher learning, the relationship between government and these institutions and reasonable limit for government intervention with amalgamation.Chapter Seven probes, from the angles of resources and competence, into the resource integration and its strategies after the institutions are amalgamated. The reorganization and integration among the amalgamated institutions are achieved in a sense of resource integration; and by amalgamation, their competence will be fully developed and advanced further. Meanwhile, the problem of integration in the blend-in period is also approache...
Keywords/Search Tags:Institutions of higher learning, Higher education, Amalgamation, Reorganization, Reasons for amalgamation, Government intervention, Resources, Integration, Culture, Competence, Discipline, Effects
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