Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
What are the characteristics of a successful university?
Strategic management in universities
Managing university finance
The academic context: Organization, collegiality and leadership
Managing the core business
Good governance
Extending the boundaries
Building an image, establishing a reputation
Ambition
Inhibitions to becoming entrepreneurial
Turning round failure, arresting decline, managing retrenchment
Managing universities for success
Appendix
References
Index
The Society for Research into Higher Education

About the Author

Michael Shattock is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London. He has published widely in higher education: his most recent books for Open University Press are Managing Good Governance in Higher Education (2006) and Entrepreneurialism in Universities and the Knowledge Economy (2008).