Academics’ values in French universities. Is commitment to performance compatible with commitment to university ‘publicness’?

Stéphanie Chatelain-Ponroy (), Stéphanie Mignot-Gerard (), Christine Musselin () and Samuel Sponem ()
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Stéphanie Chatelain-Ponroy: LIRSA-CRC - LIRSA. Centre de recherche en comptabilité - LIRSA - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en sciences de l'action - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM]
Stéphanie Mignot-Gerard: IRG - Institut de Recherche en Gestion - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12
Christine Musselin: CSO - Centre de sociologie des organisations (Sciences Po, CNRS) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Samuel Sponem: HEC Montréal - HEC Montréal

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Abstract: This study analyzes academics' values in relation with the reforms led in the public sector of higher education. We claim that studying values/attitudes in a given field is critical to anticipate future institutional changes (Greenwood and Hinnings, 1996), since they are often precursors of concrete practices and behaviors (Campbell, 1963; Summers, 1970). As the reforms of higher education led recently in France have stressed the notion of "performance" – present both in the NPM and Neo-Weberian narratives –, we investigate to what extent the adhesion to a culture of performance is compatible with the maintenance of the commitment to the university "publicness" (Bozeman, 2007) – which is antithetical to the ideology promoted by NPM. In addition, investigating the robustness of university publicness contributes to the debate upon the transformation of public servants' values.

Keywords: University; Academics' values; Performance; Publicness; Higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-12-11
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Published in 4th RESUP International Conference: University missions. Reconfiguration, interplay and contradictions, Dec 2014, Lyon, France

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