De quoi Radius est-il le nom? Enjeux et enseignements de la création d'une cellule de reporting institutionnel dans une université

Contemporary universities are under a good deal of pressure to adopt ways of functioning and organization taken from business. It is encouraged to reconcile goals of efficiency and profitability in a context of competition between institutions. Based on a case study carried out in a Francophone Belgian university, we consider how its Management Dashboards and institutional reporting allowed the university to respond to injunctions to change, in what ways they furnished a strategic support for management, as well as the effects of their implementation within the administrative organization. We will explain why the Radius cell was created at the university, as well as its structure and functioning. We will see that its impact on the institution’s personnel has been considerable. Creation of the Radius cell, which elicited misgivings on the part of administrations deprived of some their prerogatives, testifies to a reinforcement and relocalization of administrative prerogatives, some of whose powers are now concentrated in the hands of governing boards.