Conceptualization
Ahmad Gholipour; Majid Mokhtarianpour; Ezatollah Abbasian
Abstract
Considering the multitude of actors in the public sector and the wide scope of government interventions, the coordination of actors is an important challenge to achieve the goals. However, this concept still has theoretical and conceptual ambiguities, which in turn have challenged its realization. To ...
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Considering the multitude of actors in the public sector and the wide scope of government interventions, the coordination of actors is an important challenge to achieve the goals. However, this concept still has theoretical and conceptual ambiguities, which in turn have challenged its realization. To address the coordination challenge, three important questions should be clarified: What is the coordination of public sector activists? Why there is a need for coordination between public sector activists? And how can it be achieved? In previous studies, different answers have been given to these questions. However, there is a lack of a comprehensive approach to coordination, which combines the findings of various studies. In this research, an attempt has been made to provide a comprehensive framework for thinking about coordination in the public sector using the meta-synthesis method. For this purpose, after several stages of screening, 51 final documents were selected from more than 1000 documents, and by analyzing them in MAXQDA software, what, why, and how the phenomenon of coordination of activists in the public sector was identified in the form of a total of 7 main categories. The answer to "what this phenomenon is" was put in the form of three main categories: «Ratio of Actions Together To Achieve Common Goal», «Coordination Is A Continuum, Not A Dichtonomy» and «Dimensions Of Coordination». The answer to why this phenomenon is needed was put in the form of three main categories: «Prior Necessities», «Posterior Necessities» and «Coordination Costs». Finally, the answer to how to achieve it was put in the main category of «Creating A Clear, Common, And Valid Basis For Action».
Sahar Kosari; Hasan Ahmadi
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the internal and external governance of the higher education system in Iran. To achieve this goal, the qualitative approach was used. The statistical population of the study was senior managers and senior experts in educational and research departments. Based ...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the internal and external governance of the higher education system in Iran. To achieve this goal, the qualitative approach was used. The statistical population of the study was senior managers and senior experts in educational and research departments. Based on theoretical data saturation, 11 of them were interviewed face to face. Semi-structured interview method was used for data collection and inductive content analysis was used for data analysis. The findings of the study showed that the major actors of the internal governance include the university chancellor, the board of directors, the council of the university, and the board of trustees, and the main actors of external governance are the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, the Expediency Council, the Supreme Council of the Science, Research and Technology, the Ministry of Science and Research and Technology and the Vice-President of Science and Technology Presidency. Also, components of the higher education governance system include actors (from the government, the market, or civil society) and policies (Intra-institutional policies such as financial policies, content policies and structural policies, and other policies such as social policies, entrepreneurial policies, and govermental policies). Then, each of the internal and external actors of the higher education system were examined based on their legal functions in accordance with the research framework.
