The growing influence of global rankings drives higher education institutions (HEIs) across the globe to conform to the indicators and implement changes to obtain world-class status. We examine why HEIs in similar institutional environments are structured and processed differently on the ranking issue with different outcomes. By employing a qualitative method, we engaged in a 44-month study period from September 2015 to April 2019. The main data sources were interviews with 75 informants from among the various stakeholders at the Indonesian Top 11 AHEIs (autonomous HEIs) and other available secondary data. The findings show that the factors driving the change initiatives in Indonesian universities can be categorised into institutional and market pressures, respectively. Our findings also indicate that changes to obtain world-class status are highly driven by external stakeholders for the Indonesian AHEIs outside the World University Ranking (WUR) Top 500, while the AHEIs which have entered the Top 500 highly are influenced by the internal stakeholders. We conclude that different stakeholders and pressures determine the differences of change process as well as the outcomes. Therefore, these findings suggest that pressures from external stakeholders are needed for the changes among AHEIs with low-level WUR, while pressures from internal stakeholders are needed to maintain and increase the ranking among high level WUR.

全球排名不断增长的影响力驱使全球的高等教育机构（HEI）符合指标并实施更改以获得世界一流的地位。我们研究了为什么在类似制度环境中的HEI在排名问题上具有不同结果的结构和处理方式不同。通过采用定性方法，我们从2015年9月到2019年4月进行了为期44个月的研究。主要数据来源是对印度尼西亚前11名AHEI（自治的HEI）以及其他可用中学中各个利益相关者的75名线人的访谈。数据。调查结果表明，推动印尼大学开展变革举措的因素可以分别分为机构压力和市场压力。我们的研究结果还表明，获得世界一流地位的改变是由外部利益相关者在世界大学排名（WUR）前500名之外的印尼AHEI推动的，而已进入前500名的AHEI受内部利益相关者的影响。我们得出的结论是，不同的利益相关者和压力决定了变更过程以及结果的差异。因此，这些发现表明，低水平WUR的AHEI之间的变化需要外部利益相关者的压力，而维持和提高高水平WUR之间的排名则需要内部利益相关者的压力。而进入500强的AHEI受内部利益相关者的影响。我们得出的结论是，不同的利益相关者和压力决定了变更过程以及结果的差异。因此，这些发现表明，低水平WUR的AHEI之间的变化需要外部利益相关者的压力，而维持和提高高水平WUR之间的排名则需要内部利益相关者的压力。而进入500强的AHEI受内部利益相关者的影响。我们得出的结论是，不同的利益相关者和压力决定了变更过程以及结果的差异。因此，这些发现表明，低水平WUR的AHEI之间的变化需要外部利益相关者的压力，而维持和提高高水平WUR之间的排名则需要内部利益相关者的压力。