The creation of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) represents a significant
development concerning the teaching mission of the university in the UK. This paper …

The evaluation of university efficiency in Europe began timidly when the European Higher
Education Area (EHEA) was created. However, this issue is currently becoming increasingly …

This work aims to explore the relationship between academic performance and voluntary
Intellectual Capital (IC) disclosure in the context of Italian Public Universities. This study …

Higher Education institutions (HEIs) and, in particular, universities play a well-established
role as key agents in creating and promoting regional economic growth and competitiveness …

Higher education (HE) reforms are usually inspired by New Public Management (NPM)
global reform scripts. This article focuses on a pivotal object of NPM-driven reforms––central …

Over the last few decades, neoliberal, managerial, reforms have dominated the university
sector in a number of different countries. Calculative practices, including performance …

Many countries, including Italy, are increasingly managing their public higher education
systems in accordance with the New Public Management principle that private-sector …

In this paper, we compare the efficiency of the Italian and German universities in the process
of transforming public funding into the multiple outputs of a university, ie graduating …

Competition‐based policy programmes are an external steering mechanism to create
beneficial outcomes for societies that are entering the Continental European Higher …

Intellectual capital refers to the set of intangible assets that create competitiveness in public
and private organizations and has a strategically significant role concerning resources …