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Governing in the time of Covid-19: how board meetings went online and the implications of this for considering the role of the governing board

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Watson C & Ireland A (2023) Governing in the time of Covid-19: how board meetings went online and the implications of this for considering the role of the governing board. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 47 (3), pp. 391-406. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877x.2022.2131380

Abstract
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 necessitated changes in the working practices of many organisations such that online meetings suddenly became the norm. Governing board meetings were no exception. However, little is known about the impact of online meetings on the work of boards. Here we draw on empirical evidence from observations of in-person and online board meetings in eight colleges of further education across the UK to address the question: in what ways do governing board meetings differ in online and in-person contexts? From this we consider what this tells us about the role of the board in the life of the organisation. We conclude that social gathering, which emphasises the importance of place, is of central importance in the work of the board.

Keywords
Institutional substance; mediatisation; organisational space; virtual meetings

Journal
Journal of Further and Higher Education: Volume 47, Issue 3

StatusPublished
Funders
Publication date31/03/2023
Publication date online31/10/2022
Date accepted by journal27/09/2022
PublisherInforma UK Limited
ISSN0309-877X
eISSN1469-9486