The OECD and Higher Education Policy: Agenda-Setting, Organizational Dynamics and the Construction of Convening Authority

Autor/inn/en	Harmsen, Robert; Braband, Gangolf
Titel	The OECD and Higher Education Policy: Agenda-Setting, Organizational Dynamics and the Construction of Convening Authority
Quelle	In: Higher Education Policy, 34 (2021) 3, S.582-602 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Harmsen, Robert)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0952-8733
DOI	10.1057/s41307-019-00153-1
Schlagwörter	Case Studies; International Organizations; Higher Education; Outcomes of Education; Guidelines; Educational Policy; Stakeholders; Agenda Setting; College Administration + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Richtlinien; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung
Abstract	The article examines the engagement of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with the higher education sector. Detailed empirical case studies probe the ultimate failure to launch of the OECD's Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes initiative, as well as the recent demise of the long-established Institutional Management in Higher Education programme and the development of a new initiative on the evaluation of higher education system performance. The analysis is informed by a theoretical framework drawn from the wider international organization literature, focusing on internal organizational dynamics and the manner in which international organizations seek to construct their external authority. A complex portrait of the OECD as a policy actor correspondingly emerges, focused on agenda-setting within the organization in terms which highlight the interplay of organizational, governmental and stakeholder interests. This is further suggestive of a broader research agenda exploring emerging international-level policy processes in higher education. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01