The institutionalization of managerial logic in the performance management system of public universities: an exploratory qualitative study

Abstract

No one can deny the essential role played by the management system in the quest for the performance of public establishments and in particular universities. Our objective in this article is to explore the perceptions of the actors interviewed on the main dimensions of the management system. of the Moroccan public university. For this, we will analyze the Moroccan university performance management system. Furthermore, we will try to open up questions that have not yet been sufficiently explored by performance management research. Indeed, the particularities of these (complex) organizations, their fields of activity and their management methods pose new questions to the researcher in performance management, which oblige him to wonder about the imperatives of adaptation and institutionalization of managerial logic through the transition from the logic of means to a new logic of results and performance.