Factors Influencing Public Higher Education Institutions’ Performance Reporting in the Romanian Context
Our study aims to facilitate a deeper understanding of the factors influencing performance reporting in the specific context of the hybrid higher education system in Romania, a former communist country in Eastern Europe with little experience in managing the notion of public sector performance. Perf...
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| author | Adriana Tiron-Tudor Cristina Silvia Nistor Szilveszter Fekete Andreea Alexandru |
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| description | Our study aims to facilitate a deeper understanding of the factors influencing performance reporting in the specific context of the hybrid higher education system in Romania, a former communist country in Eastern Europe with little experience in managing the notion of public sector performance. Performance reporting impacts higher education institutions’ development. The study’s approach offers opportunities to understand the main factors that influence and are influenced by mandatory elements stipulated in the specific norms in the public-university domain. Institutional and operant theories explain and sustain multilevel (institutional, organizational, and individual) performance-reporting analysis. In terms of research design, the theoretical exploration led us to formulate hypotheses while empirical data were collected from 23 Romanian public universities, ensuring the results’ reliability. The results indicate that the performance-reporting concept and practical demand in public universities depend on both exogenous causes (isomorphic pressures) and endogenous factors (different behaviors of organizations and individual performers). The performance reporting of Romanian public higher education institutions enriches the scientific literature and the practical sphere by offering comprehension of a European country’s evolution with roots in a communist system, having a lot of specific approaches, as a base for comparison with similar Eastern European entities or experienced countries. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0b1dc585ce1c47c2a9a3910a73a00dcb2023-11-24T12:36:23ZengMDPI AGAdministrative Sciences2076-33872022-11-0112416310.3390/admsci12040163Factors Influencing Public Higher Education Institutions’ Performance Reporting in the Romanian ContextAdriana Tiron-Tudor0Cristina Silvia Nistor1Szilveszter Fekete2Andreea Alexandru3Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babes-Bolyai University, 500591 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaFaculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babes-Bolyai University, 500591 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaFaculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babes-Bolyai University, 500591 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaFaculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babes-Bolyai University, 500591 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaOur study aims to facilitate a deeper understanding of the factors influencing performance reporting in the specific context of the hybrid higher education system in Romania, a former communist country in Eastern Europe with little experience in managing the notion of public sector performance. Performance reporting impacts higher education institutions’ development. The study’s approach offers opportunities to understand the main factors that influence and are influenced by mandatory elements stipulated in the specific norms in the public-university domain. Institutional and operant theories explain and sustain multilevel (institutional, organizational, and individual) performance-reporting analysis. In terms of research design, the theoretical exploration led us to formulate hypotheses while empirical data were collected from 23 Romanian public universities, ensuring the results’ reliability. The results indicate that the performance-reporting concept and practical demand in public universities depend on both exogenous causes (isomorphic pressures) and endogenous factors (different behaviors of organizations and individual performers). The performance reporting of Romanian public higher education institutions enriches the scientific literature and the practical sphere by offering comprehension of a European country’s evolution with roots in a communist system, having a lot of specific approaches, as a base for comparison with similar Eastern European entities or experienced countries.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/12/4/163higher education institutionsperformance reportingRomaniafactors |
| spellingShingle | Adriana Tiron-Tudor Cristina Silvia Nistor Szilveszter Fekete Andreea Alexandru Factors Influencing Public Higher Education Institutions’ Performance Reporting in the Romanian Context Administrative Sciences higher education institutions performance reporting Romania factors |
| title | Factors Influencing Public Higher Education Institutions’ Performance Reporting in the Romanian Context |
| title_full | Factors Influencing Public Higher Education Institutions’ Performance Reporting in the Romanian Context |
| title_fullStr | Factors Influencing Public Higher Education Institutions’ Performance Reporting in the Romanian Context |
| title_full_unstemmed | Factors Influencing Public Higher Education Institutions’ Performance Reporting in the Romanian Context |
| title_short | Factors Influencing Public Higher Education Institutions’ Performance Reporting in the Romanian Context |
| title_sort | factors influencing public higher education institutions performance reporting in the romanian context |
| topic | higher education institutions performance reporting Romania factors |
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