Building Cross-border Joint Universities in China

<p>This book examines the interactions and dynamics between one cross-border joint-university and its social environment in the process of institutional transplantation and organizational adaptation. This study specifically demonstrates the interplays between the joint-university and its key players including partners government market parents and the general public. By examining a variety of tensions between the joint-university and its key social actors this research suggests a concept of organizational dilemma to capture the characteristics embedded in cross-border joint-universities in mainland China and as an analytical model to unpack the tensions giving rise to the dilemmatic feature.</p>