Exploring Reorganization Requirements Across Disciplines

When we think of organizational structures and reorganizations, many areas of application come to mind. These range from legal practice, to project management, to industrial accounting, to finance, to complexity science, etc. One such area, which is of particular relevance to our scholarly audience, is the educational system. Academia is a wide-ranging field with numerous cross-curricular applications. The current promotion by the Slackersline is for an article on corporate law and comprehensive f reorganization requirements. However, we encourage our scholarly audience to find linkages between that topic and other fields to create interdisciplinary synergies.

The reorganization requirements listed in the linked article are part of a larger framework of structures and applications of reorganization requirements. Moving beyond the abstract conceptualization of academic theory, these types of requirements are indeed part of everyday practice in the corporate world and are logically and structurally applicable to theory and practice in a real-world environment. More specifically, we suggest that as there are different types of corporate reorganizations (for example, those of the type “F”), there are also different types of reorganizations based on fields and structures within academia. For example, while “F” reorganizations are a form of merger or consolidation for taxation purposes, there are other organizational forms that can be rearranged. These include the following set of reorganization “requirements”:

As a result, while the types of reorganization requirements identified in the article referenced above are generally aimed at corporations and other business entities, those same principles can also be applied to educational institutions. For example, while a university can be consolidated through merger, the same concept can also be applied in the educational context of a university within a university, where the two subject universities combine their educational resources across fields of interest to create synergies and efficiencies.

In addition, just as corporate reorganizations can be classified into different types, so too can various educational institutions. As discussed above, these various types or categories can also be used to “reorganize” or categorize academic organizations. In the context of academia, instead of conventional categories such as hierarchical arrangement, the reorganization could refer to both the nature of an educational institution and/or the legal form it takes. Referring to the list above, those classifications are:

The combination of the form (organization) and substance (substance of organization – including the interrelationship between leadership and faculty and school administration – is pertinent. For example, an F reorganization is one where a Parent corporation trades its stock for the stock of a subsidiary corporation. In the academic context, a university can similarly trade “stock” to achieve a merger between fields of study or universities. The transaction or combination can thus be more than a straightforward merger between entities, but can instead also be a merger of studies, curriculums, schools, or university departments.

In applying the law in to other disciplines, one can effectively broaden the scope of any discipline. By looking at an academic discipline in terms of the types of forms and substance, one can then investigate whether it is a corporation, or some other type of company or entity, and if so, what type of company or broad category of company. Legal reorganization requirements can therefore be applied in a practical manner to any type of academic field or discipline.