{"id":981,"date":"2017-04-13T08:59:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T08:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lindgren-packendorff.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:01:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T09:01:43","slug":"universities-need-leadership-academics-need-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.lindgren-packendorff.com\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Universities need leadership, academics need management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this new article in <em>Higher Education<\/em>, Marianne Ekman, Monica Lindgren and Johann Packendorff discuss how \u2018managerialist\u2019 and \u2018leaderist\u2019 discourses are drawn upon in the context of the deregulation of Swedish higher education. As of 2011, there has been new legislation that frames Swedish universities as \u2018autonomous\u2019 and transfers most of the regulative responsibilities from the government level to university vice-chancellors. The aim of this article is to inquire into how tensions within and between managerialist and leaderist discourse are handled in the promotion of New Public Management reforms and the conse- quences thereof in terms of how leadership in the higher education sector is constructed. We analyse how these discourses are employed in the core documents leading up to the 2010 Riksdag decision to enact most of the proposed deregulations, and the subsequent evaluation undertaken by the social democratic government that took over in 2014. Based in this analysis, we suggest that the texts indeed draw upon notions of leadership and leaders as necessary for Swedish universities to survive and thrive in the future, but that the envisaged practise of this \u2018strong leadership\u2019 can either be characterised as a discursive void or described in terms of de- personalised, instrumental managerial surveillance and control. <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10734-017-0140-2\">Read the article open access at the journal homepage!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this new article in Higher Education, Marianne Ekman, Monica Lindgren and Johann Packendorff discuss how \u2018managerialist\u2019 and \u2018leaderist\u2019 discourses are drawn upon in the context of the deregulation of Swedish higher education. As of 2011, there has been new &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lindgren-packendorff.com\/?p=981\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lindgren-packendorff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lindgren-packendorff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lindgren-packendorff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lindgren-packendorff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lindgren-packendorff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lindgren-packendorff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lindgren-packendorff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lindgren-packendorff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lindgren-packendorff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lindgren-packendorff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}