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International Branch Campuses: Decoupling the University from its Geopolitical Base (0129) Programme number: L9 Research Domain: Higher Education Policy In the last fifteen years, the growth in the number of international branch campuses has increased at least seven fold, with approximately 100 now in operation -mostly in nations with developing economies. This paper analyzes how mature organizations linked to a specific geopolitical region (e.g., University of Nottingham, Monash University, and Michigan State University) plan and implement an emergent organization in an unfamiliar environment (e.g, Malaysia or Dubai). The purpose of this paper is to use empirical evidence to develop a new theoretical concept: non-endemic organizations, that is organizations that operate outside of their geo-political home