Universities' strategies in place building
Abstract
Universities have recently been portrayed as institutional actors in the context of ‘cross-border regions’ across different parts of the world. This study opens an agenda to better understand the interplay between multiple universities’ strategies, institutional logics and identities in relation to the place-making processes. An illustrative case study including four universities in a cross-border city region between Hong Kong and Shenzhen points to the importance of understanding the diversity of individual universities’ strategies as narrative and dynamics of capability building in a cross-border region across the past, present and future.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Higher Education Governance and Development
Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration
Human Resources and Workforce
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 130–148
- Publication date
- 20 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter