01357pab a2200205 454500008004000000100002300040245012900063260000900192300001500201362000800216520068900224650003400913650002900947650002500976650003401001650002601035700002201061700001701083773005101100180718b2017   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMolin, Martina Dal  aNew public management reforms in the Italian universities: managerial tools, accountability mechanisms or simply compliance?  c2017  ap.256-269.  aFeb  aSince 2009, a cross-sectorial reform based on the New Public Management (NPM) principles introduced a performance management system in Italian universities. On the basis of the analysis of the documents regarding the performance management system produced by 60 public Italian universities as a result of the reform implementation, the paper investigates the performance management tools in relation to both completeness and use of them. The analysis highlights that the universities have implemented performance management tools in an unstructured and nonhomogeneous way. This allows formulation of hypotheses on the main determinants of this unsatisfactory result. - Reproduced.      aPerformance appraisal - Italy  aHigher education - Italy  aUniversities - Italy  aAdministrative reform - Italy  aAdministrative reform  aAgasisti, Tommaso  aTurri, Mateo  aInternational Journal of Public Administration