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Fadda, Nicoletta; Marinò, Ludovico; Pischedda, Gianfranco; Ezza, Alberto – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
This study, which aims to investigate some potential effects derived from the adoption of performance-oriented funding in the higher education system, is focused on competitive allocative mechanism to provide universities with the staff recruitment budget in the Italian Higher Education System using panel data spanning the period 2012-2018 for 58…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Faculty Recruitment, Performance Based Assessment, Foreign Countries
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O'Connor, Pat; López, Estrella Montez; O' Hagan, Clare; Wolffram, Andrea; Aye, Manuela; Chizzola, Valentina; Mich, Ornella; Apostolov, Georgi; Topuzova, Irina; Saglamer, Gulsun; Tan, Mine G.; Çaglayan, Hulya – Critical Studies in Education, 2020
Excellence has become a 'hoorah' word which is widely used in higher education institutions to legitimate practices related to the recruitment/progression of staff. It can be seen as reflecting an institutionalised belief that such evaluative processes are unaffected by the social characteristics of those who work in them or their relationships…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Politics of Education, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
Durante, Ruben; Labartino, Giovanna; Perotti, Roberto – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
Decentralization can lead to "good" or "bad" outcomes depending on the socio-cultural norms of the targeted communities. We investigate this issue by looking at the evolution of familism and nepotism in the Italian academia before and after the 1998 reform, which decentralized the recruitment of professors from the national to…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Faculty, Institutional Autonomy, Faculty Recruitment