How Colleges Work
The Cybernetics of Academic Organization and Leadership

Robert Birnbaum (Author)

9781555423544, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 15 July 1991

288 pages
22.1 x 14.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.386 kg

"One of the best theoretical and applied analyses of university academic organization and leadership in print. This book is significant because it is not only thoughtfully developed and based on careful reading of the extensive literature on leadership and governance, but it is also deliberately intAnded to enable the author to bridge the gap between theories of organization, on one hand, and practical application, on the other."

"One of the best theoretical and applied analyses of universityacademic organization and leadership in print. This book issignificant because it is not only thoughtfully developed and basedon careful reading of the extensive literature on leadership andgovernance, but it is also deliberately intended to enable theauthor to bridge the gap between theories of organization, on onehand, and practical application, on the other."
--Journal of Higher Education

Understanding Colleges and Universities as Organizations.

Models of Organizational Functioning.

Integrating the Models.

Subject Areas: Education [JN]