... calculative regimes installed need a sensitive framework to handle dissent, resistance, tactical behaviors and changes in power relations between the field level and the organizational level. Originality/value This is a unique longitudinal case study of the Austrian HES and its public universities...

...Prof. John Burns, Prof. Bill Nixon; João Oliveira; Stewart Clegg Purpose – This paper aims to clarify a paradox in an organisation: in the past, formally powerful “central” actors confronted important limitations in their relations with formally less powerful actors. However, three innovations...

... levels of importance to each stakeholder attribute. It was found that, in this setting, power was the most salient attribute of the three, usurping legitimacy and urgency, leading to the outcomes observed. Research limitations/implications – This paper acknowledged the usual method limitations...