Performance management systems have been an inevitable consequence of the
development of government research evaluations (GREs) of university research, and have …

Governance in higher education has undergone certain substantial shifts in recent decades.
In order to analyse this process from an empirical point of view, a specific understanding of …

The introduction of performance-related pay into universities in recent years implies a belief
that academic behaviours are modified by money. However, many valued academic …

European universities have changed dramatically over the last two to three decades. The
two dominant frameworks to analyze these changes are “New Public Management” and the …

This book provides a comparative analysis of the impact of'soft Europeanization'on higher
education governance in Western Europe. Using concrete indicators of policy change, it …

In the UK the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) is being replaced by the Research
Excellence Framework (REF); similarly, in Italy the former Research Evaluation Exercise …

This paper aims to investigate intellectual capital disclosure (ICD) provided by Italian public
universities in their annual reports and to identify and examine its drivers. An empirical …

This contribution explores the transformation of higher education policy from the mere co-
ordination of educational curricula by national governments to the embodiment of the Lisbon …

Accounting education research is often considered not to be of comparable quality to other
accounting research, thereby providing secondary careers for those researching within the …

Over the past few years, there has been an ostensible growth in “quit lit,” a new genre of
literature made of columns and opinion editorials detailing the reasons why scholars—with …