Commercialisation and Corporatisation in Higher Education Field: A Qualitative Research in Accounting

On 25 March 2022, Rosaline Tandiono, PhD., one of our faculty members, was invited as a speaker in a webinar conducted by Public Sector Studies and Taxation (PSST) Faculty of Economics and Business, Gadjah Mada University. She delivered the topic of Commercialisation and Corporatisation in Higher Education Field: A Qualitative Research in Accounting, with the following presentation outline:

1. Understanding commercialisation and corporatisation in higher education (HE) field
2. How commercialisation and corporatisation begin in HE
   • The early debate of the purpose and nature of HE
   • The changing purpose and nature of HE landscape
3. Commercialisation and corporatisation of HE in Indonesia
   • The development of HE in Indonesia
   • Current HE landscape in Indonesia
4. Author’s experience in doing commercialisation and corporatisation of HE as accounting research
   • Intended topic
   • Why qualitative research
   • Is it accounting research
   • Method
   • Findings
   • Take home points from the research

This webinar is the first of the two series on Accounting Issues in Higher Education Institution: Corporatisation, Autonomy, and Agencification.