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Indonesian corporations implement corporate university with no regulations in place for the implementation of corporate university. The government has regulations for traditional universities. The corporations establish corporate university by benchmarking to abroad. The purpose of this research is to identify the types of corporate universities in Indonesia and identify its characteristics. Qualitative research methodology is used in this study while the data collected through respondent interviews, online resources, Journal articles and text books. From the results, it is inferred that there are six types of corporate universities implemented in Indonesia and their characteristics are defined. The study also suggests the new and the existing corporations to invite traditional universities set up their own laboratory in the respective organizations so that the R&D and training activities reach the target audience.
Keywords: Corporate University, Indonesia, Traditional university, Corporate training.
INTRODUCTION:
Nowadays, many corporations such as Apple, General Electric, Shell, Mars and IKEA (Centre for Strategy and Leadership, 2017) implemented corporate university to meet their strategic objectives by training employees for company-specific requirements (Indonesianatempocoa, 2016). Several state-owned corporations and private sector corporations from various industries such as telecommunications, electricity, petroleum, aviation, and banking implemented corporate university in Indonesia (Bagyo). However, to author's knowledge, Indonesia has not put forth specific regulations for implementing corporate university while there are regulations defined by the government for establishing traditional universities (Indonesia Government Republic Law, 2012). Since corporate universities are not regulated, each corporation implements its own university that meets their benchmark. Since they use their own benchmark, the style of corporate university functioning differs from one another. Due to such differentiation, the current study would like to identify whether this differentiation makes impact to the higher education. This study is important because the corporations which have not implemented yet their own corporate university, may refer the benchmark set with this study results.
Several researchers previously mentioned about implementation of corporate university. (Pazos & Ruiz, 2013) studied implementation of corporate university in Spain. Corporate universities carry out training for the purpose of knowledge management. Corporate university is not a competitor, but complementary to the traditional university. (Matlay, 2002) also investigated about corporate university, particularly in the United Kingdom. Those universities that seek income are treated as corporate university. They work...