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Trends and Dynamics of Strategic University Management in Ibero-American Higher Education

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This article seeks to examine if there are significant differences in the strategic management processes that may identify positive or negative conditions for improving these processes. A survey is carried out in the context of HEIs in Ibero-American countries, and focusing on the concern with strategic planning, this study analyses how the nature of strategising in universities interacts with the governance-level policies of the higher education system and a particular modelling of the strategy process. Therefore, a critical examination of the strategy modelling in different countries is addressed, highlighting how particular experiences might be instructive for better strategising in universities.

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  1. Business Management Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Av. Víctor Balaguer, 1, 08800, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, Spain

    Michele Girotto

  2. EAE Business School, Barcelona, Spain

    Michele Girotto

  3. UNESCO Chair of Higher Education Management, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Xavier Llinàs-Audet

  4. Management Department, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina

    Luis Alejandro Chiaramonte Cipolla

  5. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Luis Alejandro Chiaramonte Cipolla

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Girotto, M., Llinàs-Audet, X., Cipolla, L.A.C. (2015). Trends and Dynamics of Strategic University Management in Ibero-American Higher Education. In: Cifuentes-Madrid, J., Landoni Couture, P., Llinàs-Audet, X. (eds) Strategic Management of Universities in the Ibero-America Region. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14684-3_3

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