Journal of Greater Khorasan

Journal of Greater Khorasan

Presenting a Strategic Management Model for Afghanistan's Higher Education System: A Case Study of Kabul Education University

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
AbdulAhmad Amini 1
hamid Rahimian 2
Abbas Abbaspour 2
Saeed Ghiasi Nadoushan 2
1 kabul Educational university
2 Allameh Tabataba'i University
10.22034/jgk.2023.401130.1131
Abstract
This article aims to present a strategic management model for Afghanistan's higher education system, focusing on the Kabul Education University. The current research used qualitative design including semi-structured interviews and grounded theory analysis. The Interviews were conducted with 15 experts from the strategic planning teams of Kabul universities and analyzed using MAXQDA software. The study resulted in extracting 181 concepts, 15 categories, in the form of a paradigmatic model of strategic management including factors outside the university: the necessity of an efficient market force, competitiveness of universities, lack of government support; Internal factors of the university: movement towards teamwork, professionalization of the university, and institutional autonomy as a condition. Other factors include leadership support, access to financial and human resources, and organizational justice. Organizational culture, knowledge, and information management, development of innovation, organization, and mobilization of resources, sociocultural, economic, political conditions, and intervening conditions. Structural processes, development of resources, development of technology and control systems, strategies and social, cultural, and economic consequences, knowledge increase, research development, and strategic consequences have been identified as other factors. The present research is applied research in Afghanistan's higher education system and uses the newly identified factors to help Kabul Education University achieve a strategic management process.
Keywords
Strategic management
higher education
Kabul Education University
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  • Receive Date 27 June 2023
  • Revise Date 19 August 2023
  • Accept Date 19 September 2023