Organisational Control in University Management

Eneli Kindsiko is a Research Fellow and Lecturerat the School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu,Estonia. She holds a BA in Philosophy and a double MA in Philosophy andEconomics. She received her PhD in Economics and Business Administration in2014 from the University of Tartu, and the milestones of her thesis wereestablished during her stay as a Visiting Doctoral Student at the ManchesterBusiness School, UK. She hasparticipated in many international research projects, coveringthe topics of entrepreneurship in gentrified areas, learning culture, andresearch careers.

Using the example of the implementation of management reform at the U. of Tartu, Estonia, the author considers organizational control and university change management, focusing on how single perspectives about control in organizations work together to explain the diversity of the control phenomenon and drawing on modern, symbolic, and postmodern paradigms. She discusses these different perspectives of organizational control, then applies them in practice to the U. of Tartu and details a framework to understand the conflicting forces that control change initiatives.

• Introduction Chapter 1. Multiparadigm Review of Organisational Control:Drawing an Elephant Chapter 2. Change Management in Universities: Deciding overan Elephant Chapter 3. Metaparadigm Theory Building: Seeing anElephant Conclusion References Appendices