As contemporary organizational life is increasingly rule governed, actors, most notably professionals, perform their work by complying with institutional rules, stemming from regulatory bodies external and internal to organizations. This begs a question of the role agency in compliance institutions that largely ignored within organization theory. A weak form found practice theory practice-drive...

This article presents an analysis of increasingly political nature the rationales behind memberships UK and Germany in European Higher Education Area (EHEA). is guided by rational-choice neo-institutionalism based on expert interviews with key stakeholders both countries as well their relevant official communications. serves important stepping-stone to investigation link between EHEA its signat...