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Dissent with respect to these developments has commonly appealed to the notion of the university as a special kind of corporate entity that at least partly transcends merely economic considerations. This paper demonstrates that a purely economic analysis of the university provides a sufficient basis for repudiating the managerialist model.  \nIntroduction  \nThe changing character of universities in recent decades, both in Australia and internationally, has been the subject of considerable discussion, debate and indeed, concern. While a variety of forces has no doubt been at work in these institutional and other developments, at least in the Anglophone world, the shift in the political atmosphere since the end of the 1970s seems to have been the key factor – notably, with respect to the role of the public sector. Just as there have been a variety of forces at work, so also there are a number of distinct (if connected) aspects of the evolution of universities that have stimulated controversy. Here, the focus is on just two particular and related aspects. First, the rise of a managerialist approach to university governance and thereby, the emergence also of an academic managerial class that exercises power in the contemporary university, as a class distinct and largely separated from the bulk of working academics. The second is the implementation of a sort of competition model of the university system.The adoption of a managerialist approach, with a ‘line management’ struc-  \nture in which it is clear that each level of management is responsible to those further up the structure, not those‘below’, has entailed a repudiation of the traditional collegial model of the university.  \nManaging the university product  \nRather than treating the university as some kind of special corporate entity, that in some manner at least partly transcends merely economic considerations, one may, provisionally, approach the issue by treating the university as an enterprise,‘just like any other’, producing a set of commodities. (This will be qualified below.) But of course commercial enterprises are not all of the same kind, even as purely commercial enterprises. However, the key point here, rather than singling out the universities as in some sense unique corporate entities, is to recognise universities as belonging to the subset of enterprises that produce services, rather than physical commodities.And then further, it is necessary to understand that universities belong to that sub-subset of service providers in which it is quite impossible for a managerial group within the enterprise  \n44 The managerialist university: an economic interpretation, Tony Aspromourgos vol. 54, no. 2, 2012  \nA U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \nto enforce upon the workers a set of activities and endeavours so as to ensure the services of the corporate entity are provided to a desired quality standard.  \nUnder such production conditions it is always possible for the workers to shirk with respect to the provision of some aspects or other of the activities and endeavours that go into forming the final product. This is only reinforced when some aspects of the product or services being produced involve voluntary contributions by the individual workers, contributions that are not, and cannot, be written into explicit labour contracts. It is impossible for management to enforce all aspects of the workers’activities, either because such supervision and enforcement are too costly, or because any such surveillance would actually undermine service provision, thereby det","cbCaiks956BSS0dR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiks956BSS0dR","pdf",109995,"English","# Introduction\n# Managing the university product","[{\"question\":\"What is the paper’s main goal regarding the managerialist university model?\",\"answer\":\"It demonstrates that a purely economic analysis can provide a sufficient basis to repudiate the managerialist model of university governance.\"},{\"question\":\"Which two related aspects of university change does the paper focus on?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on the rise of a managerialist approach to governance and the resulting emergence of an academic managerial class, and on the implementation of a competition model for the university system.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper argue that “Management 101” is damaging or inapplicable to the university industry?\",\"answer\":\"Because academic services depend on conditions where management cannot fully enforce activities through supervision; quality relies on goodwill and voluntary contributions, so antagonized workers would undermine research, teaching, and service.\"}]","The managerialist university - an economic interpretation | PDF",1792081299,15]