Mountford, Nicola and Leniston, Niamh (2021) Born or made - can interdisciplinary and intersectoral doctorate education create institutional entrepreneurs? A systematic review. In: 7th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’21). Universitat Politecnica de València, pp. 791-798.

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Abstract

Solving grand societal challenges such as equitable healthcare provision and climate change will require institutional entrepreneurs – people who can challenge prevailing regulations, behaviors, and ways of thinking. As the pinnacle of educational achievement, the doctoral degree should be the fire in which such fledgling institutional entrepreneurs are forged. Doctoral education has, however, been criticized as overspecialized and divorced from reality. We systematically review the doctoral education literature in our search for doctoral education programs that challenge institutional norms by bridging sectoral and disciplinary divides. We ask whether such programs can help to nurture institutionally entrepreneurial researchers. We find that students must manage ambiguous identities and wide networks but that such programs have the potential to equip them for both sense-making and sensegiving activities of institutional entrepreneurship.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
Keywords:	doctoral education; institutional entrepreneurship; intersectoral; interdisciplinary;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business
Item ID:	14676
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAd21.2021.12960
Depositing User:	Nicola Mountford
Date Deposited:	18 Aug 2021 16:21
Publisher:	Universitat Politecnica de València
Refereed:	No
Funders:	EU Horizon 2020
URI:	Organisation
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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