La valutazione e i suoi effetti sull'università: una comparazione tra Italia e Francia

The paper presents the results of a comparative study on four universities in France and in Italy, which investigates how evaluation helps to strengthen the university as autonomous and professional organization, able to formulating strategies and/or tactics of adaptation in relation to regulatory changes and context, overcoming the traditional loosely coupled feature. The hypothesis is that the academic organizations show different effects of resilience, linked to intended and unintended changes