Internationalisation activities: the influence of governance and management models in Argentina, Canada, Lithuania, Portugal, and Taiwan

ENThis chapter employs the concepts collegiality and managerialism to model two ideal-typical forms of university governance. These conceptions are used to examine academics’ perspectives on governance and internationalization incentives or strategies as per the 2018 APIKS survey. It explores the relationship between academics’ perceptions of their institutions’ internationalisation strategies and activities, and perceptions of new managerialism. In particular, it aims to understand to what extent levels of new managerialism increase in relation to the strength of internationalisation incentives. Five country cases are compared regarding the relation between their higher education governance style and internationalization incentives: Argentina, Canada, Lithuania, Portugal, and Taiwan. Data shows that each country has evidence of both collegial and managerial forms of governance. Yet even with the presence of both governance forms, internationalisation as an institutional strategy is empirically shown to have a positive relationship with managerialism rather than collegiality. These findings are particularly insightful since the sample of countries represents different regions and modes of university governance, and yet in all locations the relationship between perceptions of managerial governance and internationalisation strategies or incentives is positive.

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