期刊名称:The Online Journal of Applied Knowledge Management
印刷版ISSN:2325-4688
出版年度:2017
卷号:5
期号:2
页码:1-15
出版社:The International Institute for Applied Knowledge Management
摘要:According to the New Public Management (NPM) concept, public agencies (in such numberuniversities) have to strive for the efficiency analogous to the private counterparts by amongothers private sector styles of management practice (‘proven’ tools). One of the groups of the‘proven’ and widely used tools are those connected with the strategic management. Couldstrategic management tools be helpful for management of public universities? The aims of thispaper are twofold: to discuss the potential and usefulness of strategic groups map in the highereducation and to test empirically differences of efficiency between mapped groups. This articlepresents map of strategic groups of faculties of engineering and technology sciences affiliated atpublic universities in Poland. The investigation was based on the convenient sample of 48faculties, thus the study should be treated as pilot researches. Following Ward’s method fourstrategic groups of faculties were delineated, namely: “Scientific Entrepreneur”, “Authors”,“Middlers” &”Teachers”. Each of these groups is characterized in this article. Then thedifferences in performance according to the groups’ membership were tested. Based on the chisquare(2) statistics we find differences in efficiency between strategic groups.