Blar i 4 - Academic Publications / Vitenskapelige publikasjoner på forfatter "Elken, Mari"
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Bounded innovation or agency drift? Developments in European higher education quality assurance
Elken, Mari; Stensaker, Bjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)As higher education quality assurance in many countries in Europe has become a mature activity, some agencies carrying out external quality assurance are developing beyond their core tasks and missions. The current study ... -
Collaborative design of governance instruments in higher education
Elken, Mari (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)There is considerable focus on finding effective governance approaches. This article examines experiences with using more collaborative approaches to developing new governance instruments in the context of higher education. ... -
Conceptualising ‘quality work’ in higher education
Elken, Mari; Stensaker, Bjørn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The issue of quality enhancement within higher education has attracted considerable research interest and the article suggest that managerial and cultural approaches have thus far dominated the literature in the field. ... -
Global rankings in the Nordic region: challenging the identity of research-intensive universities?
Elken, Mari; Hovdhaugen, Elisabeth; Stensaker, Bjørn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Global university rankings currently attract considerable attention, and it is often assumed that such rankings may cause universities to prioritize activities and outcomes that will have a positive effect in their ranking ... -
Implementation of ambiguous governance instruments in higher education
Elken, Mari; Borlaug, Siri Brorstad (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The article examines how higher education institutions respond to ambiguous governance instruments. A key focus is how ambiguity is tackled in the interpretation and implementation processes. Building on theoretical ... -
Linking higher education and the world of work: learning outcomes and intermediary organisations
Elken, Mari; Tellmann, Silje Maria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Higher education institutions are increasingly expected to demonstrate the relevance of the education provided and establish tighter links with the labour market. The introduction of learning outcomes represents one such ... -
Mergers, distance, and leadership: Perceptions of different forms of distance to leadership in merger processes
Frølich, Nicoline; Elken, Mari; Eide, Thea (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Mergers in higher education are large-scale, complex organisational change processes seeking to integrate former independent institutions into a new organisational entity. Mergers are often justified by reference to broad ... -
Multi-level, multi-actor and multi-issue dimensions of governance of the European Higher Education Area, and beyond
Vukasovic, Martina; Jungblut, Jens Patrick Wilhelm; Chou, Meng-Hsuan; Elken, Mari; Ravinet, Pauline (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018)With massification and increasing focus on knowledge as the foundation for inclusive and sustainable social, cultural, political as well as economic development, higher education has become more salient and politicized ... -
Policy framing of international student mobility in the Nordic countries
Elken, Mari; Hovdhaugen, Elisabeth; Wiers-Jenssen, Jannecke (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Student mobility in the Nordic countries has traditionally been characterized by cultural cooperation and egalitarian values. Yet, the region has not been isolated from international trends towards emphasizing excellence ... -
Professional higher education institutions as organizational actors
Elken, Mari; Røsdal, Trude (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Organizational actorhood is a term that has gained prominence in literature about higher education as a way to describe some of the key global change processes with emphasis on organizational accountability, formalization ... -
Quo Vadis EHEA: Balancing structural continuation and political variety
Jungblut, Jens Patrick Wilhelm; Maassen, Peter; Elken, Mari (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020) -
Standardization of (higher) education in Europe – policy coordination 2.0?
Elken, Mari (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The European educational landscape is changing. Education remains formally under the sphere of the nation states and has traditionally been resistant towards EU involvement. Several recent initiatives from joint policy-making ... -
Studieprogramledelse – et spørsmål om organisering?
Stensaker, Bjørn; Elken, Mari; Maassen, Peter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-03-08)Utdanningsledelse har blitt fremmet som et viktig tiltak for å øke kvalitet i norsk høyere utdanning, men det har vært relativt begrenset kunnskap om hva utdanningsledelse på studieprogramnivå består av. Studieprogramledere ... -
The painters behind the profile: The rise and functioning of communication departments in universities
Elken, Mari; Stensaker, Bjørn; Dedze, Indra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)It has been argued that universities are changing into becoming more professional as organizations, and this paper investigates this claim by exploring the emergence and tasks of communication departments in modern ...