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Universities as Complex Enterprises - How Academia Works, Why It Works These Ways, and Where the University Enterprise Is Headed (Hardcover)
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Universities as Complex Enterprises - How Academia Works, Why It Works These Ways, and Where the University Enterprise Is Headed (Hardcover)
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Explores the nature of academic enterprises, including why they
work the way they do and where such enterprises are headed, with
the goal of gaining insights into where change can and will happen
This book looks at universities from a whole-enterprise
perspective. It explores the steady escalation of the costs of
higher education and uses a computational economic model of complex
academic enterprises. This model includes component models of
research, teaching, administration, and brand value. Understanding
the relationships among practices, processes, structure, and
ecosystem provides the basis for transforming academia, leveraging
its strengths and overcoming its limitations. More specifically,
this architecture helps the reader understand how various elements
of the enterprise system either enable or hinder other elements of
the system, all of which are embedded in a complex behavioral and
social ecosystem. Each topic is explored in terms of the levels of
the architecture at which it primarily functions. Levers of change
within each area are discussed, using many experiences of pursuing
such issues in a range of academic enterprises. Provides a new
methodology by taking a more systems-oriented approach to education
systems as a whole Shows how various elements of the enterprise
system either enable or hinder other elements of the system Offers
alternative strategies for transformation of academic enterprises
Universities as Complex Enterprises: How Academia Works, Why It
Works These Ways, and Where the University Enterprise Is Headed is
a reference for systems scientists and engineers, economists,
social scientists, and decision makers. William B. Rouse is the
Alexander Crombie Humphreys Chair within the School of Systems
& Enterprises and Director of the Center for Complex Systems
and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New
Jersey. He is also Professor Emeritus, and former Chair, of the
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. Rouse has written
hundreds of articles and book chapters, and has authored many
books, including most recently Modeling and Visualization of
Complex Systems and Enterprises (Wiley, 2015).
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