‘Little Boxes All the Same’: Exploring and contextualizing paradoxes of power in a strategic change programme in a UK university
基于英国大学战略变革项目，研究集中赋权中的悖论，揭示权力如何同时具有压制性和生产性，对理解高校管理变革有参考价值。
Drawing on the paradox literature, this article considers its relevance for those working in a UK university. First, through focusing on a strategic change programme that constituted the university, staff and students as ‘little boxes’, it empirically examines the paradox of centralized empowerment. Second, we argue that centralized empowerment is a manifestation of the wider neoliberal project confronting universities and its paradox of controlled freedom. Finally, we extend a critical understanding of paradox by exploring how power operates in simultaneously repressive and productive ways.