Abstract

CLARK, Burton R. Sustentabilidade de Mudanças nas Universidades: continuidades em estudos de casos e conceitos. Avaliação (Campinas) [online]. 2006, vol.11, n.01, pp.09-28. ISSN 1414-4077.

My book, Creating Entrepreneurial Universities, based on mid·1990s research in five European universities, set forth five "pathways to transformation" by which public universities assume a highly proactive stance. On the basis of further research that tracks developments in these institutions during the late 1990s, this paper presents a conceptual transition from transformation to sustainability. How is change institutionally sustained after much transformation has taken place? Enduring components are found in a steady state of change that includes a bureaucracy of change. Further analysis suggests three dynamics of sustained change: reinforcing interaction among transforming elements: perpetual momentum resulting from steady accumulation of incremental changes; and ambitious volition embedded in the university as collective commitment and institutional will. A longer manuscript under preparation will explore the utility of the old pathways and lhe new sustaining features in case studies of entrepreneurial universities in other parts of the world.

Keywords : Entrepreneurial Universities; Higher Education.

        · abstract in Portuguese     · text in Portuguese     · Portuguese ( pdf )