Chavez, Leah Mesa (2021) Institutional leadership and their influence on frontline management when implementing academic entrepreneurial initiatives. Doctoral thesis, Northern Arizona University.
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Abstract
Public higher education institutions (HE institutions) have had to increasingly diversify their financial portfolios due of ongoing reductions in public funding allocations. One-way public HE institutions are diversifying their financial portfolios is by increasingly investing in academic entrepreneurial initiatives implemented by their internal academic stakeholders; faculty, staff and/or students. This qualitative case study incorporating components of action research was aimed to understand how institutional leadership influences frontline management (faculty and/or staff) when implementing academic entrepreneurial initiatives. The theoretical framework used for this research study is the Influencer Model. This research study took place within a large public research university, with the case bounded in a large academic department that has services pertaining to academia, and community services related to their land-grant agricultural and extension missions. Keywords: academic entrepreneurship, influence, public higher education budget reductions, leadership, management
Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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Publisher’s Statement: | © Copyright is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the Cline Library, Northern Arizona University. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. |
Keywords: | academic entrepreneurship; influence; leadership; management; public higher education budget reductions; Higher education finance |
Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
NAU Depositing Author Academic Status: | Student |
Department/Unit: | Graduate College > Theses and Dissertations College of Education > Educational Leadership |
Date Deposited: | 23 Feb 2022 18:00 |
Last Modified: | 23 Feb 2022 18:00 |
URI: | https://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/5741 |
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