The nature of university management: influence of political-institutional, economic and cultural aspects

Abstract

The university is a conducive space for the production of knowledge to contribute to the search for solutions to the problems that affect humanity. The purpose of this study is to analyze the nature of the management of the public university in Brazil, as well as to identify the political-institutional and cultural
constraints present in the institutional discourse in order to understand the nature, principles, objectives and purposes and mission This institution. To do so, we divided the research into two stages: the first stage deals with a theoretical analysis, based on a survey of academic-scientific productions in the Capes database (3 dissertations) and Scielo (4 articles) between the years 2011 and 2016; The second stage is the result of a more analytical study, based on institutional documents of the researched universities (federal and state based in the capitals), the Statute and the Institutional Development Plan on: principles, objectives and purpose and mission. The data were analyzed using the content analysis technique from the perspective of Bardin (2009). The results indicate that the nature of university management is built according to political, institutional, economic and cultural constraints; and they are articulated in order to delineate the structure and functioning of management, as well as of all university politics.