Table Of ContentJairo H. Cifuentes-Madrid
Pablo Landoni Couture
Xavier Llinàs-Audet E ditors
Strategic
Management of
Universities in the
Ibero-America
Region
A Comparative Perspective
Strategic Management of Universities
in the Ibero-A merica Region
Jairo H. Cifuentes-Madrid
Pablo Landoni Couture
Xavier Llinàs-Audet
Editors
Strategic Management
of Universities in the
Ibero- America Region
A Comparative Perspective
Editors
Jairo H. Cifuentes-Madrid Pablo Landoni Couture
Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Bogotá , Colombia Montevideo , Uruguay
Xavier Llinàs-Audet
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Barcelona , Spain
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Acknowledgements
The editors are very grateful to the members of the Telescopi Network for
p ermissions to draw substantially, especially in Chaps. 2 and 3, on the internal
reports produced by the different higher education institutions that were participat-
ing in the Telescopi Project, which was co-funded by the European Commission.
The national teams that worked in the various institutions across 18 countries in
Latin America and Europe during the implementation of the Telescopi Project along
3 years were led by the following (in alphabetic order), to whom we would like to
express our gratitude: Alejandro Barrera, Atilio Bustos, Joan Cortadellas, Alfonsas
Daniunas, Jean Francois Denef, Carlos Fosca, Carlos Greco, Enrique Lau, Vicenzo
Libretti, Washington Macías, Maritza Monge, Alsonso Muga, Andreu Oliva, José
Carlos Quadrado, Vanya Roca, César Talavera, Leandro Tessler, Luis Castillo,
Vicente Durán, Arturo Mora, Alberto Roa, Gaspar Rosselló and Claudia Velandia.
We are also thankful to all the members of the Telescopi national teams that were
involved in different ways, proving distinctive inputs throughout the project
according to their roles and expertise (listed in alphabetic order): Anna María
Amerio, Kary Cabrera, Laura Chaves, Carlos Castellanos, Leo Díaz, Christian
Duqué, Carlota Fernández, Rosa Gianoli, Mario Greco, Ingrid Grünewald, Milos
Lau, Pedro Lizola, Rubén López, Paula Maguiña, Victor Henry Molina, Claudia
Milena Muñoz, Anabelle Mora, Isaac Olivares, Pablo Opazo, Mary Esther Parada,
Mario Patiño, Rita Pereira, Asta Radzeviciene, Patricia Rodríguez, Roberto Rus,
Norberto Sáinz, Sabrina Sauksteliskis, Yennisel Santana, Mónica Serrano, Armand
Spineux, Luis Alberto Urra, José Adán Vaquedano and Pablo Villalobos.
We would like to put forward our special recognition to Geny Saavedra, the proj-
ect manager of the Telescopi Project, who was very helpful in facilitating the com-
munication among the national Telescopi teams, as well as in providing full support
during the different phases of the elaboration of this book. Additionally, we would
like to put a thank you note to Michele Girotto, a corresponding author of this edited
book, who was also very supportive in assisting us with the book proposal elabora-
tion, the revision phase as well as during the editorial process of this publication,
who may be regarded broadly as assistant editor.
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Contents
1 Strategic Management in Universities: A Conceptual
Framework Based on Ibero- American Higher
Education Systems ................................................................................... 1
Claudia Lucia Velandia Gomez and Michele Girotto
2 Trends in Latin American Higher Education Systems ......................... 45
Luis Eduardo González , Oscar Espinoza ,
and Jasmina Berbegal Mirabent
3 Trends and Dynamics of Strategic University Management
in Ibero-American Higher Education .................................................... 69
Michele Girotto , Xavier Llinàs-Audet ,
and Luis Alejandro Chiaramonte Cipolla
4 Best Practice in University Strategic Management’s
Conceptual Framework .......................................................................... 1 29
Jairo H. Cifuentes-Madrid , Pablo Arranz-Vals ,
and Joaquim Deulofeu
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Contributors
Pablo Arranz-Vals Applied Economics, Universidad de Burgos , Burgos , Spain
Jasmina Berbegal Mirabent F aculty of Economics and Social Sciences,
Universitat Internacional de Catalunya , Barcelona , Spain
Jairo H. Cifuentes- Madrid General Secretariat, Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana ,
Bogotá , Colombia
Luis Alejandro Chiaramonte Cipolla Management Department , Universidad
Nacional de Cuyo , Mendoza , Argentina
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , Barcelona , Spain
Joaquim Deulofeu Business Organization at the Barcelona School of Informatics,
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , Barcelona , Spain
QUALITAT, Serveis Empresarials, S.L. , Barcelona , Spain
Oscar Espinoza Center for Research in Education of the UCINF University,
Universidad UCINF , Santiago , Chile
C enter for Comparative Politics of Education, Diego Portales University,
Santiago , Chile
P rograma Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Educación (PIIE),
Santiago , Chile
Michele Girotto Business Management Department , Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya , Barcelona , Spain
EAE Business School , Barcelona , Spain
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