Our starting point in “Universities as Anarchic Knowledge Institutions” (2024) is that research universities can appear to be inefficient organisations, in need of management reforms and strategic streamlining from outside forces. Despite appearances, we argue that this image usually holds only if we try to view research universities through the prism of some other type of organisation, like a business corporation. Historically, this is a relatively new idea: as Krücken and Meier (2006) ...
