Coherence Rationales in Higher Education planning: An Outline of an Analytical Framework

Coherence Rationales in Higher Education planning: An Outline of an Analytical Framework

• Robert Mbella Mbappé, Université de Yaoundé I, Cameroun

doi : 10.18162/fp.2023.783

Résumé

Coherence rationales are an analytical tool able to account for the mode of construction of coherence by the actors. Built from the explanatory theories of strategy, they appear nevertheless with elements of difference and even contradiction in their structure. Knowing that every analytical framework is based on a particular philosophy, the present study tries to understand these discrepancies from the epistemological paradigms and provides, thereafter, an analytical grid allowing to test each coherence rationale empirically.

Abstract

Coherence rationales are an analytical tool able to account for the mode of construction of coherence by the actors. Built from the explanatory theories of strategy, they appear nevertheless with elements of difference and even contradiction in their structure. Knowing that every analytical framework is based on a particular philosophy, the present study tries to understand these discrepancies from the epistemological paradigms and provides, thereafter, an analytical grid allowing to test each coherence rationale empirically.