Efficiency Towards Transparency: The Case Study of the Italian Lyric-symphonic Foundations

The realization of a new Public Administration oriented to the efficiency and to the transparency is one of the objectives of the current European policies. In this process, the Public Institutions have shown a continuing and growing need to develop systems of multidimensional measurement of their performances: a relatively new process, which has its origin from the New Public Management (NPM) Theories. The research - which has as reference to the Italian Lyric-Symphonic Foundations - lies in the complex area of measuring the performance of Public Institutions: specifically, the study seeks to identify the presence of a possible correlation between some indicators of corporate performance and the administrative transparency level deduced from the information available on the Public Administration’ websites under study.