Nino Tandilashvili

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Institut Supérieur de Commerce

While previous research has primarily explored functional and informational drivers, this study investigates how experiential education can facilitate electric vehicle adoption. Based on the BMW i3 test drive program case and blogs data, this research identifies two types of customers who participate in such programs: early adopters who have a high...

This research studies an important question of configurational change of entrepreneurial growth. More precisely, it explores the question of post-start-up configurations in invention-based ventures and aims to improve our understanding of how and why aspects of start-ups transition from one stage to another. A case study method enables us to see wh...

Rankings of higher education institutions are used as important marketing tools. Given their competitive environment, business schools increasingly use their position in rankings to attract new students and staff and to communicate about their image and reputation. In parallel, literature has demonstrated the importance of student satisfaction in g...

This paper explores the impact of international university rankings on French universities. A multiple case study of three French universities examined the nature of these impacts at national, organisational, and individual level. A thematic analysis of interviews using NVivo software showed that the changes, either imposed by new policies or initi...

In the context of an increasingly competitive environment in higher education, this article looks at the determinants of student satisfaction in European business schools. We analysed one French and one Georgian business school through a survey of 551 students. Structural equation modelling was used to test the research hypotheses, with qualitative...

Cet article explore les caractéristiques des rapports d’audit produits par des institutions supérieures de contrôle qui sont susceptibles d’accroître leur utilisation par les parlementaires. Contrairement aux études précédentes, celle-ci se focalise sur l’utilisation des rapports explicitement commandés par leurs utilisateurs au travers du cas des...

Les administrations d'État (AE) ont connu ces vingt dernières années des mutations consi-dérables en termes d'instrumentation du contrôle de gestion (CDG) et de pilotage de la performance. L'ambition affichée était grande ! D'un point de vue technique, le vocabulaire du contrôle de gestion n'est plus tabou et ses outils ont été largement diffusés a...

Pour faire face aux évolutions socio-technologiques, l’université française s’est engagée dans un processus global de réformes visant à améliorer et moderniser son mode de gestion. Les universitaires critiquent souvent les réformes, principalement à cause du conflit entre les valeurs traditionnelles du monde académique et les nouvelles valeurs intr...

Innovation has become a central rhetoric in organizational science. It is also a key concept in the public sector, often taking the form of managerial innovation. Considered as a lever for improving the performance and efficiency of public organizations, managerial innovation governs almost all reforms affecting these bodies. For reformers, it is a...

University autonomy and performance orientation have been the central points of the French higher education modernisation reforms since the 1990s. These reforms have met with criticism and opposition from academics for introducing new values and professional norms that they argue are incompatible with the academic profession. The present research a...

Recent socio-technological evolutions have pushed French universities to engage themselves in a global process of reforms aiming at modernization of their management practices. Several studies have demonsrated a conflict between traditional academic values and new principals introduced as a result of university management modernization. The present...

Reforms based on the ideology of managerialism aim (as stated by the reformers) to improve the performance of organisations and public services and increase their efficiency. The objective of performance is twofold: 1) the quality of service and delivery-quality is often understood as the transparency of activities and the speed of service; and 2)...

IMPACT The article offers a framework for supreme audit institution (SAI) practitioners to understand the recent changes experienced by SAIs in OECD countries, such as the introduction of performance audit and an increase in ex-post evaluations, and the effects of these changes on the three types of SAI. The authors explain the four missions of the...

The French Organic law relating to the finance laws (LOLF) voted in 2001, is based on two main pillars: to improve public management and to better ensure the exercise of parliament's budgetary power (the National Assembly and the Senate). To do so, the law institutionalised a specific tool facilitating the control of public finances by the two cham...

With the increasing importance, higher education is considered as a major asset for any nation’s socio-economic and technological development. The quality of education offered by the higher education institutions directly impacts country’s performance. That is why, number of scientific researches and public reports and debates agrees on the importa...

The paper proposes an in-depth analysis of managerial innovation that took place in higher education institutions in France. The innovation is analysed in three angles: Knowledge innovation as a result of implementation of new managerial tools and practices in universities; Relationship innovation as a result of new relation between universities an...

Driven by major changes in the higher education environment, French universities have engaged themselves in a comprehensive process of management modernization. In parallel, governments have undertaken number of reforms to face up important socio-economic and technological evolutions. These reforms aroused a vague of criticism in English and French...

International university rankings have become particularly important since couple of decades. When only national university rankings existed, they were popular and important in some countries, while others did not pay much attention to them. But with the introduction of international rankings since early 2000s (Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranking...

International university rankings have become particularly important since couple of decades. When only national university rankings existed, they were popular and important in some countries, while others did not pay much attention to them. But with the introduction of international rankings since early 2000s (Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranking...

Organizational autonomy has been a central topic in the higher education modernization reforms in France since the 1990s. The reforms of autonomy and decentralization, especially with the law of Liberties and Responsibilities of Universities (called law LRU), aroused a vague of criticism and opposition among the academics. They criticize mostly the...