Academic power and institutional control of academia in Argentine public universities within the context of a managerial governance model

MARQUINA, MÓNICA; PÉREZ CENTENO, CRISTIAN; REZNIK, NICOLÁS

Research Handbook on Academic Careers and Managing Academics

Edward Elgar Publishing

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2022; p. 47 - 63

Mónica Marquina, Cristian Pérez Centeno and Nicolás Reznik analyse academic institutionalpower in Argentina within a context of change in university governance, from a collegialto a managerial model. The changes occur in a context of deep transformations of highereducation systems in Latin America under the New Public Management paradigm. Using datafrom the Academic Profession in the Knowledge-Based Society (APIKS) survey, their analysiscontributes to the discussion on ?managing academics? by reflecting on how changes ingovernance have an impact on academic power and institutional control. The new governancemodels, framed by NPM, do not entirely substitute the collegial model, but academics doperceive them as increasing institutional control over academic activity by a minority group ofacademics. Paradoxically, those who consider themselves more influential are also those whoperceive more institutional control, which reveals a more complex relation between academicand managerial power than is usually assumed. This work questions the idea that new governancemodels transform academics into ?managed professionals?.