Higher education institutions around the world are taking on more responsibility for their own future planning. As a result, they need to further strengthen their capacity for strategic performance. The narrow field of strategic planning is comprised of three steps: first the changing demands of the environment (economy, society, policy, research, etc.) are analyzed against the institution’s in...

Research in higher education has concentrated on a number of areas, which include the values and collective identities of academic faculty, their role in higher education governance, faculty norms and socialisation processes, and the impact of change in higher education on academic roles (Rhoades 2007). While many authors advocate the types of research methodology that should be used in such in...