Jussi Kivistö

• Professor, D.Sc. (Admin.)
• Professor at Tampere University

The concept of the fundamental values of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA)–academic freedom, academic integrity, institutional autonomy, participation of students and staff in higher education governance, and public responsibility for and of higher education–received little attention and was taken for granted during the first decade of the...

This chapter aims to demonstrate that the non-affirmative theory of education offers conceptual tools to analyse the tension between universities´ autonomy and accountability. The autonomy of universities becomes affirmative in character when it is geared towards finding the most functional and efficient ways of reaching externally defined performa...

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This paper presents the findings of the push and pull factors that cause professionals to leave academia. Previous research has mostly focused on academic professionals’ intent to leave their current organisations and largely neglected occupational turnover, that is, the cases where faculty abandon an academic career. The study included 40 semi-str...

Over the past decades, universities as public organisations and societal actors have been impacted by policies emphasising accountability measures and incentive systems in the context of New Public Management (NPM) inspired governance reforms. At the same time, financing higher education has been a key issue in higher education policy. Nordic highe...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of public administration in Finland. Many of the basic structures of Finnish public administration have remained intact during the country’s relatively short independence of 100 years, but she has been able to tackle major turbulence ranging from wars and financial crises to the Covid-19 pandemic. Finland...

Kokoomateoksessa syvennytään tilintarkastuksen, arvioinnin ja omistajaohjauksen ajankohtaisiin ilmiöihin ja kysymyksiin.Tarkastuksen ulkoinen toimintaympäristö – talouselämä, yritystoiminta ja sääntely-ympäristö – muuttuu jatkuvasti. Esimerkiksi ilmastonmuutoksen ja muiden kestävyysongelmien torjunta keskeisenä megatrendinä on tuonut yritysvastuun...

Kokoomateoksessa syvennytään tilintarkastuksen, arvioinnin ja omistajaohjauksen ajankohtaisiin ilmiöihin ja kysymyksiin.Tarkastuksen ulkoinen toimintaympäristö – talouselämä, yritystoiminta ja sääntely-ympäristö – muuttuu jatkuvasti. Esimerkiksi ilmastonmuutoksen ja muiden kestävyysongelmien torjunta keskeisenä megatrendinä on tuonut yritysvastuun...

The study analyses how Finnish education experts have been positioned within international organisations and have influence on development cooperation in the education sector. In addition, the study identifies the career paths of the experts and explores their views on Finland’s role in global development cooperation in the sector. The analysis co...

This paper focuses on the interplay of European and national higher education policy in implementing a joint degree Erasmus Mundus programme on institutional level. We utilise the stakeholder approach to highlight and contrast the differing internationalisation rationales. Specifically, we analyse how the impact of external stakeholders (European C...

Tässä arviointiraportissa tarkastellaan, ovatko strategiselle tutkimukselle (Strategisen tutkimusneuvoston rahoittama) asetetut tavoitteet toteutuneet. Arviointi kattaa vuosien 2014–2020 välisen ajanjakson. Strateginen tutkimus on tuottanut uutta tutkimustietoa ja käytännöllisiä ratkaisuja, joita keskeiset sidosryhmät ovat voineet hyödyntää. Tutkim...

This chapter aims to investigate internationalisation strategies and the ensuing identities of universities in a merger process. It focuses on examining how the approaches to institutional merger and internationalisation are intertwined in the Tampere case. Specifically, it investigates how mergers are justified by internationalisation in an instit...

Strategisen tutkimuksen rahoitusmuoto (STN) on tarjonnut uudenlaisen mahdollisuuden kehittää tutkimuksen ja päätöksenteon välistä vuoropuhelua. Parhaimmillaan rahoitusmuoto mahdollistaa siirtymistä yksilökeskeisestä lineaarisesta tiedeneuvonnasta kohti moninäkökulmaista ja verkostomaista tukea päätöksenteolle. Tietopohjaista päätöksentekoa tuk...

Purpose This article studies the tensions between universities' accountability and autonomy in response to the demands of public steering mechanisms coordinating higher education institutions. Design/methodology/approach Demonstrating the tension between accountability and autonomy, the impact and relevance of public steering mechanisms coordinati...

This chapter examines how higher education systems are currently being influenced by the ideas of new public management. With the aid of a systematic literature review, it maps the use of post-new public management governance concepts in the higher education context, including network governance and the neo-Weberian state.

Artikkeli on osa Eurostudent VII -julkaisusarjaa. Artikkelissa tarkastellaan korkeakoulutuksen marginaaliryhmien – maahanmuuttajataustaisten, vammaisten ja mielenterveysongelmista kärsivien – opiskelemaan hakeutumista, opiskelukokemuksia sekä tulevaisuuden suunnitelmia. Artikkelin keskeisenä johtopäätöksenä on, että marginaaliryhmiin kuuluvien ja m...

The article is part of the Eurostudent VII series. The article examines the reasons why foreign students pursuing a degree apply for a student place in Finland and their interest in staying in Finland after graduation. This study also focuses on the placement of foreign graduates after graduation from the point of view of employment. The material i...

Tutkimuksessa selvitettiin korkeakoulutuksen sosiaalista, alueellista, kielellistä ja sukupuolten tasa-arvoa ja saavutettavuutta Suomessa, ja verrattiin sitä muihin OECD- ja EU-maihin. Lisäksi tarkasteltiin verrokkimaiden – Ruotsin, Irlannin ja Englannin – tasa-arvon edistämisessä hyödynnettyjä politiikkoja ja toimenpiteitä, sekä pohdittiin niiden...

Doctoral employment outside universities has been increasing, as universities cannot employ all doctorate holders. Nevertheless, it has been argued that the shift from doctoral programs to the non-academic labour market has been limited. In this qualitative study, more than 800 verbal answers given by doctorate holders to a pair of open-ended quest...

This article examines the monitoring of third-party education agents employed in international student recruitment. Agency theory identifies comprehensive monitoring as one way to ensure that agents work in the principal’s best interest. By analyzing best practice guidelines, this article investigates the monitoring mechanisms proposed for educatio...

The academic career stories and trajectories of PhD holders have been widely studied in the context of economic austerity and an oversupply of doctors. However, few studies have investigated career building among ex-academics and how a doctoral degree and university work might affect their career possibilities outside academia. This paper explores...

Research on how performance-based funding influences the behaviour and performance of academics is limited in Europe. In this study, we investigate the changing publication patterns among Finnish academics associated with the introduction of awarding funding for publications within specific journals in the national performance-based funding model....

The extant literature has identified five problems related to public sector organisations and their reputation management: politics, consistency, charisma, uniqueness and excellence. This study examines whether and how the problems of reputation management occur in public higher education by collecting qualitative data from 40 interviews. The study...

This chapter explores and compares the institutional logics of Chinese and Finnish doctoral education systems through on-desk research of secondary data. Findings show that in both Chinese and Finnish doctoral education systems, there are five underlying institutional logics, namely state logic, profession logic, family logic, market logic and corp...

This paper investigates the accountability mechanisms introduced in the universities in the Nordic countries by building on a typology of accountability types. By utilising survey data, it analyses how academics experience the changes in accountability mechanisms and how they perceive the impact of these changes on their performance. The analysis s...

Universities are public organisations, which operate in a highly institutionalised environment. They are heavily dependent on public resources. As such, universities are susceptible to shifts in governance arrangements but are also far from being passive recipients of reform agendas. They face demands from multiple internal constituencies (academic...

This chapter provides a brief description of how the four national systems included in this study—Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden—are currently organised and structured. In doing so, it illuminates several specific features such as the types and sizes of the institutions, enrolment patterns, performance measures, and funding. In addition, the...

The need for greater efficiency, productivity and quality in the higher education sector has triggered increased governmental interest towards different mechanisms of accountability, especially evaluation and performance measurement. This interest has developed over a relatively long period of time, but it has now reached its culmination point in m...

This study examined occupational teacher training offered at universities of applied sciences. Two key questions guided the analysis: 1) What kind of structures do the units offering teacher training use to organise their functions, and how are the positions held by senior teachers, lecturers and other staff defined? 2) What kind of research, devel...

The purpose of this study is to further our understanding of dilemmas facing the third mission of universities. Through this dilemma-related information, we aim to provide paths for universities to reconcile these dilemmas and adopt a more holistic approach to university marketing. In so doing, we revisit “the shotgun wedding of industry and academ...

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Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö julkaisi ehdotuksen uudeksi rahoitusmalliksi vuosiksi 2021–2024. Rahoituksen ja ohjauksen kehittämistyötä on tehty korkeakoulutuksen ja tutkimuksen visio 2030 -toimeenpanoryhmässä “Mahdollistava ohjaus, resurssit ja rakenteet”. Rahoitusmallin kehittämisessä pyrittiin ohjausvaikutusten selkeyteen, läpinäkyvyyteen ja ri...

A reliance on indirect service export in the form of offshore-based education agents is widespread across Australian and New Zealand tertiary education institutions. The control issues pertinent to the use of these type of third-party middle-men have been well documented in the international business and agency theory literatures. The urgency of un...

This paper applies agency theory to explore the contractual relationship between higher education institutions (HEI) and HEI-contracted for-profit education agents in international student recruitment, bridging a gap in the existing literature by investigating the underlying issues surrounding these relationships. Building on insights and findings...

The book focuses on I Methodological Approaches II Conceptual Approaches III Scholarly Traditions Applied to understand universities

Despite the widespread use of performance-based management in higher education, empirical research on its actual impact has remained scarce, particularly in Europe. With agency theory as a framework, our study utilised survey data collected from Finnish universities in order to explore the influence of performance management on perceived teaching a...

Although the role and significance of the external stakeholders of higher education institutions has grown in recent years, quality assurance of stakeholder relationships remains a new phenomenon in the management practices of higher education institutions and in higher education research. Based on interviews and expert panel data, this article ana...

ABSTRACT Management is one of the most studied phenomena in higher education. Most of these studies are conducted in the framework of higher education policy, academic work and quality of education and research. The management is often seen as an independent variable explaining the changes in higher education in the context of New Public Management...

Doctoral education as a policy field is an important link between educational, research and innovation policies. It is gaining importance in European and national policy discussions. Doctoral education policies are increasingly formulated at the supranational level, even though the European Commission does not possess formal competence in terms of...

Yliopistojen henkilöstöjohtaminen on linkittynyt historiallisista syistä valtionhallinnon henkilöstöjohtamiseen. Tämän lisäksi yliopistolainsäädäntö on luonut vahvan juridisen kehikon henkilöstön pätevyyksille, tehtäväkausille ja tehtäville. Siirtymä byrokraattisesta henkilöstöhallinnosta kohti (strategista) henkilöstövoimavarojen johtamista on vas...

Recruitment is a core instrument in the academic labour market. This article takes the perspective of the organisation (here, the university (on recruitment. Universities' personnel policies and practises are shifting from legally oriented personnel administration to more strategic human resource management (HRM). In Nordic countries, this shift is...

This is the final report on the evaluation project financed by the Ministry of Education and Culture into a model for four levels of career advancement for researchers. The content, conclusions and recommendations for improvement are those of the authors of the evaluation. The aim was to examine how the model for four levels of career advancement f...

For achieving a higher level of efficiency in higher education, methods of allocating funding are considered essential instruments among the wider spectrum of other governance tools. Recent trends and practices in Europe increasingly point towards more frequent use of performance-based funding mechanisms (PBF) in higher education financing (Jongblo...

Agency theory (also known as the principal-agent or principal agency theory/model) describes the relationship between two or more parties, in which one party, designated as the principal, engages another party, designated as the agent, to perform some task on behalf of the principal (Jensen and Meckling, 1976; Moe, 1984; Ross, 1973). The theory ass...

Despite the growing popularity of applying performance-based funding throughout the European higher education systems, very little is known about its impacts on organizational performance and behaviour of higher education institutions. This paper provides a literature review on recent studies investigating the impact of performance-based funding sc...

The study was conducted as a response to needs for information on stakeholder cooperation at higher education institutions and the related quality management efforts. The aims of the study were divided into three subcategories: I Establishing how stakeholders and stakeholder cooperation of higher education institutions can be defined at a conceptu...

Recent Finnish policies have encouraged Finnish higher education institutions to develop a market-oriented approach to international higher education by implementing fee-based educational programmes for students from outside the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). From the Finnish government’s perspective, higher education is...

The existence of information asymmetry has ascended to a significant role in higher education systems. The article makes an attempt to conceptualise the interaction of universities with their environment, stakeholders, and the state by paying special attention to the role and substance of information asymmetry. The existence of information asymmetr...

The aim of this paper is to use agency theory as the theoretical framework for an examination of the government–university relationship and to assess the main strengths and weaknesses of the theory in this context. Because of its logically consistent framework, agency theory is able to manifest many of the complexities and difficulties that governm...

How do governance structures impact university actions? Why does it matter if a governance structure is centralized or decentralized? How does an institution respond to a governor and legislature with differing higher education agendas? Why are some campus activities politically significant while others go unnoticed? Is a university more responsive...

Information concerning performance failures caused by university opportunism has been scarce. As opportunism is presumably a substantial factor explaining low performances of universities, this paper creates a taxonomy of different possible forms of university opportunism and provides a description of the content and the dynamics of the phenomenon....

The purpose of the review was to produce a concise description of the objectives of the Programme for increasing education in the information industry fields, in addition to briefly describing the events which occurred during the programme period and the results yielded. In 1998, the Finnish Ministry of Education launched a programme to increase ed...

This article introduces the agency theory to the field of higher education research. By applying agency theory to the inter-organisational relationship between government and higher education institutions, it is possible to illustrate general problems facing control and governance in a more theoretical and analytical way. The conceptual arsenal pro...

This article introduces the agency theory to the field of higher education research. By applying agency theory to the inter-organisational relationship between government and higher education institutions, it is possible to illustrate general problems facing control and governance in a more theoretical and analytical way. The conceptual arsenal pro...