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Shadow organising: emerging stakeholder collaboration in higher education to enhance quality

Jensen, K; Fumasoli, T; Stensaker, B; (2020) Shadow organising: emerging stakeholder collaboration in higher education to enhance quality. Journal of Further and Higher Education , 44 (3) pp. 365-377. 10.1080/0309877X.2018.1541975. Green open access

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Abstract

Much research is currently addressing how to establish, maintain and govern stakeholder collaboration in higher education. In this article, the concept of shadow organising, i.e. stakeholder imitation of formal educational provision, is introduced to illustrate bottom-up, proactive ways to connect multiple autonomous organisations and stakeholder groups within and outside universities (such as professional bodies, employers and student unions). The article exemplifies the concept of shadow organising by analysing emerging stakeholder collaboration in legal education. The case illustrates the collaborative but informal efforts of a range of supporting actors. The results show that the actors are connected to each other through concrete and practical actions, instead of agreements, regulations or partnerships, which have stabilised into a widespread latticework of interlinked activities: training law students, hiring law graduates, supervising learning processes and instituting quality control. Simultaneously, however, actors maintain their distinctive roles, identities and mandates without initiating official collaboration or a common discussion of objectives and rationales.

Type: Article
Title: Shadow organising: emerging stakeholder collaboration in higher education to enhance quality
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/0309877X.2018.1541975
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2018.1541975
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: stakeholders, cross-boundary coordination, inter-organisational collaborations, legal education
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10060144
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