Why do higher education institutions internationalize? An investigation of the multilevel determinants of internationalization rationales
Why do higher education institutions internationalize? An investigation of the multilevel determinants of internationalization rationales
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高等教育机构为何要国际化？
作者：
M. Seeber;M. Cattaneo;J. Huisman;S. Paleari
近几十年来，国际化在高等教育机构（HEIs）中日益突出。学者们已经确定了国际化的几个理由。然而，对于某一高等教育机构选择国际化的理由及其原因，缺乏概念上的理解和经验证据。本文的目的就是填补这一空白。我们开发和测试一个概念框架来预测一个特定的HEI的一个给定的理由的显着性。该框架综合了多个层面的因素，即全球和国家背景下的竞争力和体制力量、组织目标和内部行为者的影响。实证分析采用的信息超过400个欧洲高等院校从两个大的数据集，他们的组织特征，并从一个大规模的调查大学国际化。研究结果表明，嵌入在全球范围内的高等院校更频繁地设想国际化作为一种工具的声望。国家的情况并不会对高等院校的办学理念产生很大的影响，资源的数量也没有对资源的竞争那么重要。组织目标以及学生，教师和中层管理人员对国际化进程的影响部分预测的突出具体的理由。本文最后讨论了研究结果和学术研究的意义。
In recent decades internationalization has risen to prominence in higher education institutions (HEIs). Scholars have identified several rationales for internationalization. There is however a lack of conceptual understanding and empirical evidence for which rationale(s) for internationalization are chosen by a given HEI and why. The goal of this article is to fill this gap. We develop and test a conceptual framework to predict the salience of a given rationale for a specific HEI. The framework integrates factors at multiple levels, namely competitive and institutional forces in the global and national contexts, the organizational goals and the influence of internal actors. The empirical analysis employs information on more than 400 European HEIs from two large datasets on their organizational characteristics and from a large-scale survey on internationalization of universities. The findings show that the HEIs embedded in a global context more frequently conceive internationalization as an instrumental to prestige. The national contexts do not greatly affect HEIs’ rationales, and the amount of resources is less important than the competition for resources. Organizational goals as well as the influence of students, faculty members and middle managers on the internationalization process partly predict the prominence of specific rationales. The paper closes discussing the findings and the implication for scholarly research.