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There Are Mergers, and There Are Mergers: The Forms of Inter-institutional Combination

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  • Daniel W. Lang

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Mergers have for many years been a fact of life in the for-profit private sector. Recently they have become more common in the public sector and in the not-for-profit private sector. Estimates place the number of mergers among colleges and universities in the last decade at approximately 500. Why do colleges and universities merge? When they use the term "merger" what do they understand it to mean? How is a merger alike or different from other forms of inter-institutional combination. This study addresses those questions by examining the factors that motivate merger, and by determining the extent to which these factors are unique to merger or motivate other forms of inter-institutional co-operation as well. To do this, the study develops a taxonomy of inter-institutional combination, and of the factors that induce institutional behaviour towards co-operation.

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  • Daniel W. Lang, 2002. "There Are Mergers, and There Are Mergers: The Forms of Inter-institutional Combination," Higher Education Management and Policy, OECD Publishing, vol. 14(1), pages 11-50.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:edukaa:5lmqcr2k6tr3
    DOI: 10.1787/hemp-v14-art1-en
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    1. Rossella Iraci Capuccinello & Steve Bradley, 2014. "The effect of college mergers on student dropout behaviour," Working Papers 64907218, Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department.

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