Trust and Universities: Management of Research and Education under Changing Knowledge Regimes

More explicitly than before, universities have become instruments of industrial and economic growth policies. This has led to an increase in accountability regimes and in the application of the so called New Public Management on universities hitherto governed by a Humboldtian, Weberian, or Mertonian norms and a high degree of internal freedom and autonomy, according to the authors. This paper reviews some of the literature on these phenomena and analyzes critically some of the positions taken.