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The ascendency of neoliberalism and its discourse has brought about fundamental shifts in higher education, Today, higher education institutions are being infused with values that were once regarded unorthodox. Not only such global trends as massification, privatization, commodification and internationalization but also new quality indicators -in the form of quality assurance systems and university rankings- have become an integral part of higher education institutional field both globally and in Turkish higher education context. Upon briefly examining the macro level higher education institutional field with special reference to that of Turkey’s, the current theoretical paper outlines a more holistic theoretical approach to organizational analysis. Coined as Microinstitutionalism, this theoretical framework can contribute to organizational analysis in that it can combine elements of organizational identity and actorhood with conventional new institutionalist perspective, thus allowing for a more thorough understanding of diffusion and convergence of organizational behavior and practices.

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