The central purpose of this paper is to review higher education policy documents of the UKgovernment. For the analysis of recent and changing patterns of HE steering mechanisms, wewill first refer to the salient White Paper "Higher Education: a New Framework" publishedin 1991. However, the main...

The purpose of the present paper is to examine new performance management patterns in regard to their consequences for the individual identity of organizational members. In modern societies values and norms of individual performance and success play a crucial role for the constitution of...