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Rethinking Academic Entrepreneurship: University Governance and the Emergence of the Academic Enterprise
Author(s) -
Crow Michael M.,
Whitman Kyle,
Anderson Derrick M.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/puar.13069
Subject(s) - entrepreneurship , corporate governance , context (archaeology) , bureaucracy , sociology , institutional logic , relation (database) , scale (ratio) , public relations , management , political science , economics , social science , politics , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , database , computer science , law , biology
The theory and practice of academic entrepreneurship, like many domains of public management, requires active recognition that context affects individual behavior. In this Viewpoint essay, the authors contend that the operational logic of a university affects the values and activities of actors within that university in ways that shape the broader entrepreneurial activities of the university. The authors describe a new entrepreneurial organizational logic, termed the “academic enterprise,” and situate it in relation to the more established academy, bureaucratic, and market logics. The academic enterprise is inherently entrepreneurial in terms of the management of the university and its reliance on faculty and student entrepreneurship as a tool for broad‐scale social and economic transformation .