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"Institutional memory" is the set of
procedural rules and – mostly implicit – know-how an established
organization needs to work properly. There can be no doubt that the
recent Universitätsgesetz 2002 (University Act of 2002) was drafted to
strategically abrogate such a memory by thoroughly changing the basic
modus operandi of Austrian universities. Opinions differ as to the
outcome of this political intervention. Is it a liberating move towards
"autonomy" and Weltklasse, or one more attempt to crush grassroots
self-determination in the interest of the neo-liberal agenda? 