Bibliographical contributions on the relationship between governance, university planning and institutional performance

Abstract

This document makes a bibliographical approach on the issues of governance, university planning and institutional performance. It seeks to establish a theoretical relationship between these three concepts, identify approaches, theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches to understand the structures, actors, processes and internal and external factors that determine the institutional behavior of universities in specific contexts. The relevance of this bibliographical analysis lies in the fact that these three components together constitute the institutional scaffolding for the operation of universities. University governance is conceived as the way in which the university is organized with sectors, actors and internal and external factors to achieve certain fines; university planning is the strategy to guide the development of activities and operation of universities; and for its part, institutional performance is related to the results achieved by the institution making use of the resources available to it to achieve its objectives. The analyzed texts are organized into four segments: a) those that focus on management techniques and models and their results; b) those that are focused on the actors involved in the management processes; c) those who analyze the problems faced by institutions for their performance; and c) those that articulate some of the three aspects.