@article {4042, title = {Hybridity in Nordic Higher Education}, journal = {International Journal of Public Administration}, volume = {45}, year = {2022}, pages = {171-184}, abstract = {

This article builds on the concept of nested hybridity. It emphasizes professional practices and organizational design in studying hybridity of steering and management of professional public service organization. The article compares public sector dynamics in higher education in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The data consists of surveys and interviews on performance management in Nordic universities. Previous studies on hybridity of professional work and public organizations define hybridity as a multidimensional concept that occurs at different levels of social practices. While the multifaceted nature of hybridity is clear, demarcating between levels of hybridity and theoretical approaches remains complex. Based on our empirical findings, no clear top-down or bottom-up causality chains are identified. We question whether hybridity is nested as the levels of hybridity are intervened and connected, but not all levels have implications for all other levels.

}, keywords = {higher education, Hybridity, Nordic, steering}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2021.2012190}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01900692.2021.2012190}, author = {Elias Pekkola and R{\'o}mulo Pinheiro and Lars Geschwind and Taru Siekkinen and Kirsi Pulkkinen and Teresa Carvalho} } @inbook {4004, title = {Nested hybridity and value definition in public higher education: A conceptual view}, booktitle = {Hybrid Governance, Organisations and Society: Value Creation Perspectives}, year = {2020}, pages = {268}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, edition = {J. Vakkuri, J.-E. Johanson}, address = {London}, abstract = {

In this article, we explore multilevel hybridity in higher education (HE) systems, particularly the effects of marketisation on publicly funded universities. Based on current literature, we analyse how government policies and mechanisms nurture the hybrid-operating context of universities, as well as how policies and organisational and professional practices create new hybrid positions in the HE organisational field and influence academic leaders{\textquoteright} positions. We introduce the concept of nested hybridity, where systems at different levels are embedded and interconnected. Many changes either foster or hinder hybridity not only at national or organisational levels but also at professional practices and work descriptions level. Applying Noordegraaf{\textquoteright}s (2015) levels of professional work, we describe work in an academic community as the microsystem, the organisation of academic work in work descriptions and managerial dyads as the mesosystem, institutional logics and policies as the exosystem and the HE system as the macrosystem.

Hybrid logics of value definition and production involve a competition between formal and substantive rationalities. Positions and work descriptions of academics, para-academics and other professionals in HE institutions are not the entities in which the value is created. However, the work descriptions form the nucleus for the definition of organisational value-creation processes. New types of professional practices embodied in work descriptions and positions cement the authority structure in the organisational value-creation process. The hybridity of different substantive rationalities or the alignment of formal and substantive rationalities needs to occur at the level of individual professionals in order to have an impact on the primary value-creation processes.

}, issn = {978-0-367-22211-6}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429286247-6}, url = {https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429286247-6/nested-hybridity-value-definition-public-higher-education-elias-pekkola-r\%C3\%B3mulo-pinheiro-lars-geschwind-taru-siekkinen-teresa-carvalho-kirsi-pulkkinen} } @inbook {4033, title = {The sociology of professions and the study of the academic profession}, booktitle = {Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Higher Education Management and Transformation : An advanced reader for PhD students}, year = {2018}, pages = {121-150}, publisher = {Tampere University Press}, organization = {Tampere University Press}, edition = {E. Pekkola, J. Kivist{\"o}, V. Kohtam{\"a}ki, Y. Cai, A. Lyytinen}, address = {Tampere, Finland}, keywords = {academic professions, akateemiset urat, ammatit, kirjallisuuskatsaukset, literature reviews, professiot, sosiologia, teoriat}, issn = {978-952-03-0842-1}, url = {http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201809254231}, author = {Elias Pekkola and Teresa Carvalho and Taru Sikkinen and Jan-Erik Johansson} }