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High Educ (2011) 61:617–619 DOI 10.1007/s10734-010-9350-6 BOOK REVIEW Scholars as leaders? A review of socrates in the boardroom Christopher C. Morphew Barrett J. Taylor Published online: 14 August 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 Amanda Goodall, in Socrates in the Boardroom (2009), argues that accomplished researchers make the best university leaders. She supports this claim by correlating the number of times that presidents’ and deans’ publications have been cited in other scholarly works with the positions of the organizations that they head in the Shanghai Jiao Tong university rankings and London Financial Times MBA program rankings for business schools. Goodall then moves beyond simple correlation, employing multiple regression techniques to illustrate that a president’s citation count, normalized for discipline, predicts improvement in departmental research rankings at 55 British universities. Having explored her central line of argument, Goodall builds a series of claims around her thesis. Goodall interviews university leaders and distills four factors that make disciplinary expertise essential to research university leaders. She then explores the manner in which universities actually select their presidents. In what may be her most ambitious chapter of all, Goodall suggests that her model of expert leadership may be generalizable from higher education to
Higher Education – Springer Journals
Published: Aug 14, 2010
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