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ABSTRACT
We explore the regional engagement of universities in non-core regions in a Global South context and uncover how new universities form and institutionalize regional ties. Through case studies of five new universities in India, we identify three routes – personal, organizational and brokered – through which new universities form regional ties, and four logics – incrementalism, social responsibility, legitimation and rationalization – through which these ties become embedded. We unpack and combine each of the routes and logics into a framework that explains how new ties are formed and developed between a new university and its surrounding non-core region.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We thank the editors and reviewers for assisting us in developing this paper for publication.
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Notes
1. We use the term ‘non-core regions’ to refer to rural or semi-urban regions that have far less knowledge infrastructure, including universities. Scholars have used ‘peripheral’ or ‘rural’ regions to describe regions in similar situations.
2. While in many cases the government was the key intermediary, there were also instances where international development or funding organizations (e.g., World Bank and United Nations Development Programme – UNDP), and even private organizations, through corporate social responsibility efforts, acted as intermediary and facilitated relationships between the regions and the HEIs.