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Le Nouveau Management Public dans les universités françaises, un puzzle doctrinal encore mal articulé en pratiques ?

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  • Marie Boitier

    (TBS Research Centre - toulouse business school research center - Toulouse Business School)

  • Stéphanie Chatelain-Ponroy

    (LIRSA - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en sciences de l'action - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] - HESAM - HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université)

  • Anne Riviere

    (TBS Research Centre - toulouse business school research center - Toulouse Business School)

  • 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)

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to identify control devices, organizational and instrumental structures of the new public management implemented in universities. It analyzes consistency and limits of packages of control (Malmi & Brown, 2008) and highlights challenges universities are facing to ensure effective management control. We seek to answer the following research question: To what extent the evolution of management control systems participates in a coherent organizational change of the universities? We are mobilizing a case study, conducted over the period 2007-2013, and a questionnaire survey sent in 2011 to people responsible for management and governance positions belonging to both academic and administrative staff within French universities. Our results show that the five constituent dimensions of management control systems have differences that may explain the difficulties encountered by universities structure their management control systems consistently.

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  • Marie Boitier & Stéphanie Chatelain-Ponroy & Anne Riviere & Stéphanie Mignot-Gerard & Christine Musselin & Samuel Sponem, 2015. "Le Nouveau Management Public dans les universités françaises, un puzzle doctrinal encore mal articulé en pratiques ?," Post-Print hal-01188862, HAL.
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