Creating Entrepreneurial University: The Pathway Of Management Transformation

This is a case study of pathways of transformation of Huazhong University of Science and Technology which has reacted to the changeable environment.The prime objective of the research is to reveal the specific strategies which has responsed to academic capitalism and explain why Huazhong University of Science and Technology has reacted to it in this way in the unique cultural tradition in china, what's more,this research will reflect the main responding mode of universities of china facing academic capitalism from one side.An objective of the completed study is not only to promote the international communication and understanding of the unique way of development of universities of china,but also to provide decision making for the Higher Education Institutions of the same type and lead the development of them.Through continued face to face interviews, field trips and the arrangement and collection of historical data,I obtain abundence materials.With a lot of first-hand data, including oral information from interviews, school history, newspapers, archives, technology industry yearbooks, conference papers, personal biography, Statistical Yearbook of Education.Using these materials, the theoretical assumptions and questions have been successfully proposed. Through further description and analysis of history, the theoretical assumptions has been confirmed.Then,through theoretical induction and construction, a management model derived from this case has been established. On this basis, taking the University of Warwick as an example to support this theoretical model, and then promote it, extends to the interpretation category of a range of universities.Through this case study on Huazhong University of Science and Technology and double-case examination,some new findings which differs from previous studies have been obtained.First of all, the transformation experience of European and American universities and Huazhong University of Science and Technology in the new era tells us that transformation is the only option to cope with change.The development of Huazhong University of Science and Technology has always been a management change history.To examine the development history of Huazhong University of Science and Technology from the perspective of management,we can find that clearly the reason why Huazhong University of Science and Technology has developed so rapidly is that its change in time facing the social transformation. Because in a different transition,through transformation from traditional management to innovation management,and then from innovation management to entrepreneurial management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology developed from the Initial stage to academic accumulation rapidly, then quickly leaps into the development of period. Second,the choice of pathways of transformation depends on the traditional culture and historical traditions.Only watching and surpassing the cultural traditions can the universities be adaptive survival and development. Traditional culture will be a permanent balancing force of the choice of pathways of transformation. Finally,in the new era, Huazhong University of Science and Technology has accepted the challenges bravely, seen problems as opportunities and achieved the entrepreneurial transition through entrepreneurial management reform which include five core elements,such as entrepreneurial opportunities, entrepreneurial resources, entrepreneurial team, entrepreneurial culture, entrepreneurial values.This entrepreneurial university has been established through the way of management transformation,during the process of transformation, to take grasping the entrepreneurial opportunities firmly as the core, because it is the pursuit for excellence;To base on integrating the entrepreneurial resources creatively, because it is a prerequisite to grasp opportunities for development;To form entrepreneurial team dynamicly according to the need of developing opportunities, because it is superior organizational guarantee; Always to base on entrepreneurial values, because it is the internal driving forces for the pursuit of excellence; Always to aim to form entrepreneurial culture, because it is the common spirit of maintaining excellence.Overall,the transformation of Huazhong University of Science and Technology reflects that a transformation of management thinking and action of universities of china from "how much money to do how many things" to "to do how many things to hunt for how much money". The road of Huazhong University of Science and Technology illustrates that it is possible and neccesary to create entrepreneurial universities through the way of management reform. Moreover,the result of double-case copying has also confirmed the explanatory power of management theory model.