Influência da governança sobre o desempenho da gestão acadêmica das universidades federais brasileiras

Abstract

Public governance has been consolidated in the academic literature as a mechanism that contributes to enhancing the organizational performance of public entities. This arrangement, among other purposes, seeks to generate, preserve, and deliver public value. In the context of higher education, the efficiency of management in federal universities may be regarded as representative of the public value delivered to society, which can also be acknowledged through social accountability indicators, such as university rankings. Within this framework, the primary objective of this study was to examine the influence of governance in Brazilian federal universities on institutional performance. To this end, this explanatory, quantitative, and documentary research assessed the efficiency of academic management based on self-assessment indicators drawn from the management reports of 64 federal universities with data available in 2024. The findings revealed that the level of maturity of university governance did not exert an influence on the efficiency of academic management calculated by the envelopment analysis of the data, but it did affect the performance of these institutions in the RUF ranking, as well as the age and size of the universities, and universities in the North region tended to have lower RUF scores, while universities in the Southeast tended to have higher scores, suggesting that the socioeconomic conditions of these regions influenced the performance of these universities in the RUF.