The institutionalization of performance assessment for university research: towards a decoupling of management systems in academia?

Karine Gauche () and Ariel Eggrickx ()
Additional contact information
Karine Gauche: Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier, Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier
Ariel Eggrickx: MRM - Montpellier Research in Management - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - UPVD - Université de Perpignan Via Domitia - Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier (GSCM) - Montpellier Business School - UM - Université de Montpellier

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: An institutionalist approach is often adopted in research into management control, or management tools more broadly. Taking the institutionalist perspective (old or new) into account allows us to better understand the institutional pressures within a given environment. These pressures, the institutionalization of new control mechanisms, partly explain the uniformity or heterogeneity of organizations. Indeed, in response to pressures, organizations can adopt different strategies. One of them, the compromise solution, leads to decoupling in these organizations. A case study conducted on the management of research in a French university subject to new institutional pressures, reveals a form of decoupling which merits further discussion.

Date: 2016-06-01
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in 16. EURAM Annual Conference. Manageable Cooperation?, European Academy of Management (ERM). FRA.; Université Paris Est Créteil Val de Marne (Paris 12) (UPEC UP12). FRA., Jun 2016, Paris, France. 23 p

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02797251

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().