Efectos e implicaciones de las decisiones estratégi cas en las instituciones universitarias

Relationship between top management team dissimilarity, leadership styles and managers values congruence, with respect to strategic decision making process were identified in this paper. Thus, the relationship between decision making process and decision making outputs were studied as well as the universities performance. The field work was taken in Chilean and Peruvian universities. The sample is composed by 81 universities. Results shows that leadership styles, dissimilarity and values congruence have an influence over the rationality, politicization, conflict, flexibility and procedural justice in the strategic decision making process. Those behavioral variables influence over the decision quality and the implementation. Finally, the quality of the decision making process and implementation are relevant to explain the universities performance.