Strategy or Legitimacy? Analysis of the Role of Institutional Development Plans in Brazilian Universities

The aim of this study is to analyze whether Institutional Development Plans (IDP) are strategic documents or simply a response to seeking legitimacy in the face of regulatory pressures. This is a qualitative study based on information from 20 IDPs of Brazilian universities, categorized as private, p...

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Autores principales:	Maurício Andrade Lima, Fernando Antônio Ribeiro Serra, Thiago Coelho Soares, Carlos Rogerio Montenegro de Lima
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Publicado:	FUCAPE Business School 2020
Materias:	isomorphism resource based view strategy universities Business HF5001-6182
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f524227fc2bd42c29eecce79da83227f2021-11-11T15:48:08ZStrategy or Legitimacy? Analysis of the Role of Institutional Development Plans in Brazilian Universities1807-734X10.15728/bbr.2020.17.1.4https://doaj.org/article/f524227fc2bd42c29eecce79da83227f2020-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=123062398004https://doaj.org/toc/1807-734XThe aim of this study is to analyze whether Institutional Development Plans (IDP) are strategic documents or simply a response to seeking legitimacy in the face of regulatory pressures. This is a qualitative study based on information from 20 IDPs of Brazilian universities, categorized as private, public, community, or confessional. To analyze the IDPs, the content analysis methodology was used. As a result, it was found that most IDPs are much more descriptive documents, with operational goals and plans, than documents with strategic characteristics. On the other hand, in most of the documents analyzed, there was evidence of the importance and relevance of constructing an IDP as a benefit for the management and the university organization as a whole. It was concluded that IDPs tend to be documents that seek to provide universities with legitimacy in relation to the actors involved. In other words, they converge towards institutional isomorphism. Thus, they are not prepared, and used only due to institutional demands, but mainly due to legal impositions.Maurício Andrade LimaFernando Antônio Ribeiro SerraThiago Coelho SoaresCarlos Rogerio Montenegro de LimaFUCAPE Business Schoolarticleisomorphismresourcebased viewstrategyuniversitiesBusinessHF5001-6182ENPTBBR: Brazilian Business Review, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 66-96 (2020)
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spellingShingle	isomorphism resource based view strategy universities Business HF5001-6182 Maurício Andrade Lima Fernando Antônio Ribeiro Serra Thiago Coelho Soares Carlos Rogerio Montenegro de Lima Strategy or Legitimacy? Analysis of the Role of Institutional Development Plans in Brazilian Universities
description	The aim of this study is to analyze whether Institutional Development Plans (IDP) are strategic documents or simply a response to seeking legitimacy in the face of regulatory pressures. This is a qualitative study based on information from 20 IDPs of Brazilian universities, categorized as private, public, community, or confessional. To analyze the IDPs, the content analysis methodology was used. As a result, it was found that most IDPs are much more descriptive documents, with operational goals and plans, than documents with strategic characteristics. On the other hand, in most of the documents analyzed, there was evidence of the importance and relevance of constructing an IDP as a benefit for the management and the university organization as a whole. It was concluded that IDPs tend to be documents that seek to provide universities with legitimacy in relation to the actors involved. In other words, they converge towards institutional isomorphism. Thus, they are not prepared, and used only due to institutional demands, but mainly due to legal impositions.
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title	Strategy or Legitimacy? Analysis of the Role of Institutional Development Plans in Brazilian Universities
title_short	Strategy or Legitimacy? Analysis of the Role of Institutional Development Plans in Brazilian Universities
title_full	Strategy or Legitimacy? Analysis of the Role of Institutional Development Plans in Brazilian Universities
title_fullStr	Strategy or Legitimacy? Analysis of the Role of Institutional Development Plans in Brazilian Universities
title_full_unstemmed	Strategy or Legitimacy? Analysis of the Role of Institutional Development Plans in Brazilian Universities
title_sort	strategy or legitimacy? analysis of the role of institutional development plans in brazilian universities
publisher	FUCAPE Business School
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Strategy or Legitimacy? Analysis of the Role of Institutional Development Plans in Brazilian Universities

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