The Research Handbook on the Transformation of Higher Education captures the complexities and paradoxes associated with higher education transformation. Drawing upon current empirical and theoretical scholarship, it identifies the drivers, actors, developments and outcomes of transformational processes within the field.

Contents: List of contributors viii PART I UNDERSTANDING HIGHER EDUCATION TRANSFORMATION IN DIFFERENT HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMS 1 Conceptualizing higher education transformation: introduction to the research handbook on the transformation of higher education 2 Jay R. Dee, Liudvika Leišytė and Barend J.R. van der Meulen PART II CHALLENGES FOSTERING TRANSFORMATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION 2 The digitalisation of higher education: the transformative role of EdTech 23 Jamie Beaton, Xi Gao and Hamish Coates 3 Behind the ivory façade: capitalism, the post-truth condition, and epistemic authority 37 Sharon Rider 4 Markets in higher education: from systemic to institutional marketization 50 Pedro Nuno Teixeira 5 From transfer to transformation: adapting global templates to national, local, and institutional contexts 68 Gerardo L. Blanco 6 Managerialism with Soviet characteristics and global higher education: legacies and paradoxes of university transformations 81 Anatoly V. Oleksiyenko PART III THE KEY ACTORS AND INSTRUMENTS THEY USE IN HIGHER EDUCATION TRANSFORMATION 7 Evaluation and academic oligarchy in Latin American higher education: less or more power? 95 Mónica Marquina 8 Academic union voice and the transformations in/of higher education 111 Timothy Reese Cain 9 The emergence of academic resistance platforms against new public management: towards “new” forms of movement organizing? 126 Liudvika Leišytė and Clémentine Gozlan 10 Non-academic staff’s part in transforming academia: as irrelevant as their label suggests? 141 Andreas Kjær Stage and Stefan de Jong 11 Agencies in higher education: the neglected variable in the governance equation 160 Harry de Boer 12 University rankers: actors in the transformation of higher education management and managers 175 Miguel Antonio Lim 13 The role of industry in higher education transformation 188 Aleš Vlk 14 Capitalising the future of higher education: investors in education technology and the case of Emerge Education 203 Janja Komljenovic and Ben Williamson PART IV SALIENT HIGHER EDUCATION TRANSFORMATIONS RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SECTION A THE EFFECTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TRANSFORMATIONS ON THE SYSTEM LEVEL 15 Privatization’s transformative effects on academia: promise versus products 220 Avery M. D. Davis and Christopher C. Morphew 16 Higher education access and racial equity for students 236 Ali Watts and Alicia C. Dowd 17 Women academics, identity capitalism, and the imperative of transformation 251 Leslie D. Gonzales, Regina H. Gong, Sanfeng Miao and Kristen Surla 18 Massification and quality of higher education: transforming quality enhancement of teaching and learning 264 Stephanie Marshall 19 The impact of digitalisation on higher education teaching in Germany 277 Katrin Stolz SECTION B THE EFFECTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TRANSFORMATIONS ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL 20 Entrepreneurial university conception: an instauration for the advancement and utilization of knowledge 292 Henry Etzkowitz and Chunyan Zhou 21 The organizational transformation of universities: using motivation theories to explain the micro–macro link 312 Uwe Wilkesmann 22 Organizational culture and the transformation of higher education institutions 328 Jay R. Dee, Hidehiro Nakajima and Ebru Korbek-Erdogmus 23 Passive and active resistance to performance pressures among academics in UK universities 346 Liudvika Leišytė 24 Digital transformation in higher education before and following COVID-19: a Scandinavian tale 361 Rómulo Pinheiro, Cathrine Edelhard Tømte, Vito Laterza and Michael Oduro Asante 25 Matrix hybridity: the complex realities of strategic councils 377 Stefan Lundborg and Lars Geschwind 26 New managerialism, academics’ working conditions, teaching input, and research emphasis in the East Asia context 393 Robin Jung-Cheng Chen and Sophia Shi-Huei Ho PART V CONCLUSION 27 Unpacking transformation in higher education and framing a future research agenda 411 Liudvika Leišytė, Jay R. Dee and Barend J.R. van der Meulen Index 425

‘Providing a multi-level outlook on higher education transformation, The Research Handbook on the Transformation of Higher Education is timely and useful as it identifies key aspects and methods of transformational change that leaders can apply to their own institutions. Through detailed analysis of the technological, socio-political and market forces that are currently transforming universities and colleges, chapters portray change within higher education as responsive to global academic challenges such as structural inequality, reductions in state funding and the pandemic-accelerated pace of digitalisation.’