caa a22 4500 445326719 CHVBK 20180317142723.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11162-010-9185-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11162-010-9185-0 College Rankings as an Interorganizational Dependency: Establishing the Foundation for Strategic and Institutional Accounts [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Bastedo, Nicholas Bowman] Higher education administrators believe that revenues are linked to college rankings and act accordingly, particularly those at research universities. Although rankings are clearly influential for many schools and colleges, this fundamental assumption has yet to be tested empirically. Drawing on data from multiple resource providers in higher education, we find that the influence of rankings depends on constituencies' placement in the higher education field. Resource providers who are vulnerable to the status hierarchy of higher education--college administrators, faculty, alumni, and out-of-state students--are significantly influenced by rankings. Those on the periphery of the organizational field, such as foundations and industry, are largely unaffected. Although rankings are designed largely for stakeholders outside of higher education, their strongest influence is on those within the higher education field. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 College nationallicence Rankings nationallicence Strategy nationallicence Resource dependence nationallicence Organizations nationallicence Institutions nationallicence Institutional theory nationallicence Bastedo Michael Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA aut Bowman Nicholas University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA aut Research in Higher Education Springer Netherlands 52/1(2011-02-01), 3-23 0361-0365 52:1<3 2011 52 11162 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-010-9185-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-010-9185-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bastedo Michael Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bowman Nicholas University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Research in Higher Education Springer Netherlands 52/1(2011-02-01), 3-23 0361-0365 52:1<3 2011 52 11162 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer