“OUTRODUCTION”: A RESEARCH AGENDA ON COLLEGIALITY IN UNIVERSITY SETTINGS

Nico Cloete, Nancy Côté, Logan Crace, Rick Delbridge, Jean Louis Denis, Gili S. Drori, Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, Joel Gehman, Lisa Maria Gerhardt, Jan Goldenstein, Audrey Harroche, Jakov Jandrić, Anna Kosmützky, Georg Krücken, Seungah S. Lee, Michael Lounsbury, Ravit Mizrahi-Shtelman, Christine Musselin, Hampus Östh Gustafsson, Pedro PinedaPaolo Quattrone, Francisco O. Ramirez, Kerstin Sahlin, Francois van Schalkwyk, Peter Walgenbach

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Abstract

Collegiality is the modus operandi of universities. Collegiality is central to academic freedom and scientific quality. In this way, collegiality also contributes to the good functioning of universities’ contribution to society and democracy. In this concluding paper of the special issue on collegiality, we summarize the main findings and takeaways from our collective studies. We summarize the main challenges and contestations to collegiality and to universities, but also document lines of resistance, activation, and maintenance. We depict varieties of collegiality and conclude by emphasizing that future research needs to be based on an appreciation of this variation. We argue that it is essential to incorporate such a variation-sensitive perspective into discussions on academic freedom and scientific quality and highlight themes surfaced by the different studies that remain under-explored in extant literature: institutional trust, field-level studies of collegiality, and collegiality and communication. Finally, we offer some remarks on methodological and theoretical implications of this research and conclude by summarizing our research agenda in a list of themes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationResearch in the Sociology of Organizations
PublisherEmerald Publishing
Pages187-211
Number of pages25
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Dec 2023

Publication series

NameResearch in the Sociology of Organizations
Volume87
ISSN (Print)0733-558X

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 by Nico Cloete, Nancy Côté, Logan Crace, Rick Delbridge, Jean-Louis Denis, Gili S. Drori, Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, Joel Gehman, Lisa-Maria Gerhardt, Jan Goldenstein, Audrey Harroche, Jakov Jandrić, Anna Kosmützky, Georg Krücken, Seungah S. Lee, Michael Lounsbury, Ravit Mizrahi-Shtelman, Christine Musselin, Hampus Östh Gustafsson, Pedro Pineda, Paolo Quattrone, Francisco O. Ramirez, Kerstin Sahlin, Francois van Schalkwyk and Peter Walgenbach.

Keywords

  • Collegiality
  • academic freedom
  • challenges to collegiality
  • collegial maintenance
  • collegial resistance
  • collegiality and communication
  • institutional trust
  • varieties of collegiality

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