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<p>This article in the journal Gruppe. Interaction. Organization. (GIO) analyzes and compares the expert role of professors across different types of private universities in Germany. Private universities represent hybrid expert organizations that operate between academic and market-oriented logics. Based on a&#xa0;nationwide online survey, this study examines the impact of doctoral degree-awarding powers on professors’ job satisfaction, engagement, and commitment. The results show that faculty members at institutions with the right to award doctorates report significantly higher levels of satisfaction and commitment—particularly regarding research support, institutional backing, and time resources. Cluster analyses identify three role types: (1)&#xa0;all-round oriented, (2)&#xa0;teaching- and practice-oriented, and (3)&#xa0;discipline- and research-oriented professors. Universities with doctoral degree-awarding powers tend to foster more academically professional profiles, while practice-oriented types prevail at universities of applied sciences without such rights. The entitlement to confer doctorates thus stabilizes academic identity and mitigates tensions between scientific and economic logics. Private universities emerge as distinct and differentiated forms of hybrid expert organizations within the German higher education system.</p>

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Hybride Expertenorganisation an Privathochschulen

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    2026年6月19日

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  • Heinke Röbken,
  • Marcel Schütz,
  • Alena Klenke,
  • Claudia Kastens,
  • Petra Buchwald

摘要

This article in the journal Gruppe. Interaction. Organization. (GIO) analyzes and compares the expert role of professors across different types of private universities in Germany. Private universities represent hybrid expert organizations that operate between academic and market-oriented logics. Based on a nationwide online survey, this study examines the impact of doctoral degree-awarding powers on professors’ job satisfaction, engagement, and commitment. The results show that faculty members at institutions with the right to award doctorates report significantly higher levels of satisfaction and commitment—particularly regarding research support, institutional backing, and time resources. Cluster analyses identify three role types: (1) all-round oriented, (2) teaching- and practice-oriented, and (3) discipline- and research-oriented professors. Universities with doctoral degree-awarding powers tend to foster more academically professional profiles, while practice-oriented types prevail at universities of applied sciences without such rights. The entitlement to confer doctorates thus stabilizes academic identity and mitigates tensions between scientific and economic logics. Private universities emerge as distinct and differentiated forms of hybrid expert organizations within the German higher education system.