Bureaucracy in Higher Education from a Comparative Perspective

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10.2991/assehr.k.211217.022How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Bureaucracy; Higher education administration; Comparative higher education

Abstract

This paper aims to examine “bureaucracy” in the higher education context. Contrasting the definitions of bureaucracy in two cultures, it can be seen that the origin of debate started from Weber’s rectification of bureaucracy. Since then there were two tributaries — one refers to the original office power explanation and the other refers to organizational structure. Due to disparate political cultures and history of higher education in China and the West, two ways of corresponding to handle the risk of bureaucracy has appeared. The author used empirical example to demonstrate how some higher education systems turn to nepotism for solution. Meanwhile, according to literature review, others seem to search for answers in business management. The author concluded that there exists a risk when the tools are mistaken as goals and solutions are worsening the situation.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chenqi Liu
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/17
TI  - Bureaucracy in Higher Education from a Comparative Perspective
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education Studies: Experience and Innovation (ICESEI 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 143
EP  - 147
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211217.022
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211217.022
ID  - Liu2021
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