...Fernando Antonio Ribeiro Serra; Marcos Rogério Mazieri; Isabel Cristina Scafuto; June Alisson Westarb Cruz; Fabio Pinoti Purpose Mission statements are usually related to strategic management and elements related to the organization's identity. Catholic higher education organizations (CHEOs...

... publicly stated academic cost-containment objectives found in HEI’s strategic plans and mission statements, which help to unify stakeholders and link strategy to an organization’s purpose. Design/methodology/approach This paper analyzes mission statements and strategic plans of 57 small, private HEIs...

... on data collected from HESA (2001), and on the data collected from the mission statements of 117 universities by the use of the content analysis technique. Findings The study shows that 74 per cent of UK universities' mission statements include international dimensions. In addition, 48 per cent...

... of the complexity of the student′s role and whether this complexity is considered in the development of an institutions mission statement. Assesses the degree to which institutions display an awareness of the various types of customer that need to be taken into consideration when formulating their strategic plans...