French university transformation: The perception of academics

La transformation de l’université française: La perception des universitaires

Nino Tandilashvili ()
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Nino Tandilashvili: CEROS - Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Organisations et la Stratégie - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre, ISC Paris - Institut Supérieur du Commerce de Paris

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Abstract: Recent socio-technological evolutions have pushed French universities to engage themselves in a global process of reforms aiming at modernization of their management practices. Several studies have demonstrated a conflict between traditional academic values and new principals introduced as a result of university management modernization. The present research investigates the changes experienced by academics as part of this transformation. Neo-institutional theory creates an interesting framework for a thematic analysis of the discourse of academics from three French public universities. The results of this study show that coercive and mimetic isomorphism seems to be the main reason of university transformation, which resulted in value conflicts and changes in the professional identity of academics. However, contrary to the general public opinion of French academics, who attribute all their misfortunes to managerial reforms, the interviewed academics differentiate the sources of experienced evolution.

Keywords: University; managerialism; institutional isomorphism; value conflict; academic profession; Université Managérialisme Isomorphisme institutionnel Conflit de valeurs Profession académique; Université; Managérialisme; Isomorphisme institutionnel; Conflit de valeurs; Profession académique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-10-07
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Published in Gestion et management public [2012-..], 2022, Volume10/N°1 (1), pp.55 - 76. ⟨10.3917/gmp.101.0055⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/gmp.101.0055

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