Higher Education Adaptation to Environment:Anaysis of Origin, Transformation and Properness of Origanization and Scale

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24531068
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Hiroshima University
• Principal Investigator: MURASAWA Masataka 広島大学, 高等教育研究開発センター, 准教授 (00284224)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): FUJITSUKA Tomokazu 宮崎大学, 教育・学生支援センター, 准教授 (30248637) ; ASONUMA Akihiro 名古屋大学, 教育発達科学研究科, 教授 (80261759)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): OGATA Naoyuki 東京大学, 教育学研究科, 教授 (20314776) ; HASHIMOTO Koichi 東京大学, 教育学研究科, 教授 (40260509)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 高等教育 / 大学 / 適正規模 / 計量分析 / 経営学 / 組織論

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We focused on the optimal scale and scope of an organizational unit which effectively alleviate the growing workload of Japanese professors in administrative and management tasks.The effect of the size and scope of labo on administrative time was dependent by their major. We also considered whether and how the self-image, mission, and vision of universities was perceived and internalized by the management of Japanese universities and empirically examined the determinants of shaping such individual perceptions.A multiple regression analysis revealed that the economy of scale brought out by an undergraduate student enrollment gradually slowed down and decelerated executive perceptions, with regard to establishing a globally recognized status. The management in universities granted with the same amount of external research funds in both studied years responded more passively in 2012 than did in 2005 on the self-assessment of whether having established a status as a global knowledge base.

Free Research Field

教育社会学