How do the universities in China respond to academic capitalism?--From the perspective of organizational transformation under the context of academic entrepreneurship

A detailed case study on Huazhong University of Science and Technology which can represent the development process of higher education since the founding of New People’s Republic of China will be adopted in this paper. The... [ view full abstract ]

A detailed case study on Huazhong University of Science and Technology which can represent the development process of higher education since the founding of New People’s Republic of China will be adopted in this paper. The history of which the key stage of development and corresponding organizational characteristics, mode of management will be examined from the perspective of organizational management. Especially, the transition stage from traditional mode to entrepreneurial mode will be mainly focused on. Through extensive fieldwork and in-depth 105 interviews, rich first-hand material has been obtained to support this research. For that, the Grounded Theory will be used to extract the five core elements of organizational transformation that are entrepreneurial goals, entrepreneurial opportunities, entrepreneurial resources, entrepreneurial teams and entrepreneurial culture respectively,which stand for the particular entrepreneurial response to academic capitalism under the context of academic entrepreneurship from China.