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Hunsaker, Beau Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Laureate International Universities (LIU) embodies an emerging international phenomenon in which a multinational corporation (MNC) functions as a holding company that acquires and operates brick-and-mortar higher education institutions in a for-profit model; each individual portfolio institution granting degrees under its own name with any…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Proprietary Schools, School Business Relationship
Moreno, Carlos Ivan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation explores and explains the organizational responses of Mexican public state universities to an ambitious incentive-based policy created by the federal government in 2001: "The Integral Program for Institutional Strengthening" ("PIFI"). Drawing upon literature on organizational-environmental relationships and on…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Governance, Observation, Interviews