Assessing Academic Organisations from Paris to Manama: Between Methodological Concurrence and Cultural Separation
In both a normalisation and an increasing international competition context, academic organisations have been assessed for about twenty years. This paper questions the role of culture in the various stages of this institutional academic process. Our participating research took place in four institutions: two were located in the Kingdom of Bahrain (Arabic Peninsula) et the remainder in France (Europe). Our results highlight similar formal assessment processes. However, national cultures play a key role in the assessment’s reception and consequences. Indeed, in those two nations, the results of an academic evaluation hold quite different meaning.