New Public Management Reforms in the Italian Universities: Managerial Tools,Accountability Mechanisms or Simply Compliance? |
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Authors: | Martina Dal Molin Mateo Turri Tommaso Agasisti |
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Institution: | 1. Politecnico di Milano, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Milano, Italy;2. Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, Milano, Italy |
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Abstract: | Since 2009, a cross-sectorial reform based on the New Public Management (NPM) principles introduced a performance management system in Italian universities. On the basis of the analysis of the documents regarding the performance management system produced by 60 public Italian universities as a result of the reform implementation, the paper investigates the performance management tools in relation to both completeness and use of them. The analysis highlights that the universities have implemented performance management tools in an unstructured and nonhomogeneous way. This allows formulation of hypotheses on the main determinants of this unsatisfactory result. |
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Keywords: | Evaluation higher education Italy performance measurement |
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