116special focus on commonalities and differences at two levels: university-wide and one sub-unit, the college of business. I describe successful case studies in antibureaucracy policies and practices across higher education at the individual, business unit, university, and other levels to highlight cross-level best practices in higher education, including calculating the present bureaucratic mass and administrative burdens of proposed changes, implementing technology solutions, leading change management efforts across all levels, and employing best practices in decisionmaking. I conclude with a discussion of research directions that will lead to theoretical, methodological, and phenomenological contributions.

Keywords Bureaucracy · Business School · Decision-Making · Entrepreneurship · Higher Education · University

1 Introduction

A rich literature identiﬁes how greater levels of regulation tend to thwart innovation and entrepreneurship (Bailey & Thomas, 2017), often conducted by scholars in business schools and economics departments. By comparison, there is strikingly little research on the effect of the rapidly growing set of regulations and sclerotic bureaucracy in higher education institutions. This gap is particularly worrisome

S. Terjesen (*) Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway e-mail: sterjesen@fau.edu