A seguito dell’ampio movimento di riforma del settore universitario e del mutato contesto culturale ed economico, gli atenei ed i sistemi universitari nazionali sono chiamati a sostenere processi di autonomia anche attraverso l’introduzione di strumenti di misurazione, valutazione e controllo della performance. L’articolo sintetizza inizialmente gli elementi di complessità propri del concetto di performance applicato all’università; illustra successivamente la proposta di uno schema interpretativo per l’analisi dei diversi contributi normativi ed accademici sul tema. Il framework proposto può essere utilizzato al fi ne di identificare quali aree sono state presidiate dalla letteratura e dalla normativa e quali invece trascurate.
Due to the reform movement of the higher education system, the university has been and still is the centre of very complex phenomena connected to the development of new forms of relationships with cultural and production frameworks; within the autonomy process, each university tries to introduce management methodologies in the measurement of its performance. The article deals with such issue, underlining its specifi c features; it sets the objective of proposing an explanatory model that allows the classifi cation of various contributors. The framework is based on several key variables that refl ect the complex elements linked to the introduction of performance measures in universities. The framework’s utility is also linked to the fact that it could be used to identify which aspects of performance measurement system have been studied in depth and which ones have been not examined.
Due to the reform movement of the higher education system, the university has been and still is the centre of very complex phenomena connected to the development of new forms of relationships with cultural and production frameworks; within the autonomy process, each university tries to introduce management methodologies in the measurement of its performance. The article deals with such issue, underlining its specifi c features; it sets the objective of proposing an explanatory model that allows the classifi cation of various contributors. The framework is based on several key variables that refl ect the complex elements linked to the introduction of performance measures in universities. The framework’s utility is also linked to the fact that it could be used to identify which aspects of performance measurement system have been studied in depth and which ones have been not examined.
