The ‘Dean’s Squeeze’ Revisited: A Contextual Approach.

Journal of Management Development. 2016. No. 35. P. 326 –340.

Alajoutsijarvi K., Kettunen K.

The present study argues that as a response to the increasing corporatization of higher education, the university sector has fragmented into at least three identifiable contexts: the traditional research university, the academic capitalist university, and the corporate university. We conclude that the match between a dean’s worldview and the university context ultimately determines the appropriateness, survival and success of deanship.

Keywords: academic capitalism, business school, corporate university, research university, corporatization, Business school dean