Theoretical & Conceptual Frameworks
The model that describes the idea that "solutions are looking for problems."
Garbage Can Model of Decision-Making
This theorist wrote about the organizational saga.
Who is Burton Clark?
A VP of Student Affairs this kind of tree to choose which unit is allocated extra funds.
What is a decision tree?
A doctoral student wants to understand how different organizational structures impact budget allocation at two different institutions. They decide to use these models to inform their research.
This theory argued that organizations legitimate the unequal distribution of resources among racial groups.
What is Ray's racialized organizations?
These two theorists revisited the "iron cage" in their work about why institutions tend to look the same.
Who are DiMaggio & Powell?
An energetic president might be imagining creating one of these when they initiate an ambitious new curriculum for a college.
What is an organizational saga?
A researcher wants to explore why two colleges at the same university have very different levels of student success. They decide to use this theory to do a comparative case study.
What is organizational culture?
In higher education institutions, there are cultures and ___-cultures.
What is sub?
This theorist is not a higher ed researcher, but did schools as loosely couple organizations.
Who is Karl Weick?
A faculty member may be thinking about these when she allies with the staff union to lobby for better parental leave policies.
A quantitative researcher uses IPEDS data to explore a group of peer institutions and variations in annual money spent per student on high impact programming might use this theory to understand their results.
What is institutional isomorphism?
What are public and private?
This person theorized inequality regimes.
Who is Joan Acker?
The College of Natural Sciences rolls out a new mission to be a top producer of scientists and engineers of color by working to change this.
What is the organizational culture?
A historian of higher education could this combination of theories to understand the organizational identity of an HBCU.
What are organizational sagas and racialized organizations?
Microfoundations focus on this level of organizational interaction.
What is the individual?
This theorist talks a lot about organizational culture.
Who is William Tierney?
A director of Research & Sponsored Programs wants to understand why their institution has started incentivizing faculty members who bring in $1 million+ in grant money.
What is academic capitalism?
A doctoral student conducts interviews with multiple academic and student affairs practitioners to understand the extent that the participants few students as consumers using this theory.
What is academic capitalism?