The isomorphism of educational providers in the New Zealand tertiary market

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-05-11 DOI:10.1108/jal-10-2022-0108

J. Wang

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Abstract

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explain how aspects of institutional theory can be used to explain how tertiary educational providers must necessarily adopt the same features while competing in the market for students. Using new institutional sociology (NIS), the authors seek to explain this phenomena and how such diverse private providers have borrowed from the polytechnics and universities to share the same institutional features.Design/methodology/approachThis paper employs NIS to explain how tertiary educational providers must necessarily adopt the same features while competing in the market for students. In the last few decades, the Auckland tertiary market for overseas students has enjoyed strong growth before Covid-19.FindingsDecoupling provides a link between NIS and legitimacy theory in that it explains how symbolic strategies are aimed at some kind of legitimization rather than directed at technical efficiencies. It is argued that the public tertiary providers are more prone to decoupling than PTEPs because they are less attentive to costs due to their more monopolistic position in the market.Originality/valueOriginally, the market was dominated by the local universities and polytechnics with few private providers. Currently, private providers cater for a large share of the certificate and diploma market and have a growing stake in the degree market. As these changes came about so, more diverse private providers entered the market. This paper explains how these diverse entrants came to share the same organizational features.

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新西兰高等教育市场教育提供者的同构性

目的本文的目的是解释如何利用制度理论的各个方面来解释高等教育提供者在竞争学生市场时必须采用相同的特征。利用新制度社会学（NIS），作者试图解释这一现象，以及这些不同的私人提供者是如何借鉴理工学院和大学来分享相同的制度特征的。设计/方法论/方法本文采用NIS来解释高等教育提供者在竞争学生市场时必须采用相同的特征。在过去几十年中，奥克兰海外学生高等教育市场在Covid-19之前实现了强劲增长。IndingsDecoupling在NIS和合法性理论之间提供了联系，因为它解释了象征性策略如何旨在某种合法化，而不是以技术效率为目标。有人认为，公立高等教育提供者比私立私立教育提供者更容易脱钩，因为他们在市场上的垄断地位更大，对成本的关注度更低。独创性/价值最初，市场由当地大学和理工学院主导，很少有私人供应商。目前，私立教育机构占据了证书和文凭市场的很大份额，并在学位市场中占有越来越大的份额。随着这些变化的发生，更多样化的私人供应商进入了市场。本文解释了这些不同的进入者是如何共享相同的组织特征的。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

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1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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