ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the university/bureaucracy complex. It argues that accreditation is part and parcel of the corporatization of higher education, but that this also bolsters bureaucratization and tightens the 'iron cage'. The chapter investigates how the business school is a frontier, in the sense that it has taken the lead in the corporatization of higher education. It also investigates how the business school is actively enacting neo-liberal globalization by subjecting itself to accreditations and how this can be understood by taking into account the new cycle of capital accumulation that has emerged, with China as a new centre in the world economy. The chapter also explains how the efforts to corporatize the Northern Business School tend to increase the amount of administration and, as a consequence, reduces available resources for core activities. The Northern Business School is a faculty at an old university in Sweden.
