Published 2026-02-16
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Academic Dynamics and Market Logics in University Publishing Across Argentine Provinces (1985–2020)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22490/25392786.11033
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Introduction: This article examines the expansion, diversification, and professionalization of public university presses in the Argentine provinces of Córdoba, Santa Fe, and Entre Ríos between 1985 and 2020. These presses are understood as cultural production spaces that operate within the tensions between academic missions and the commercial logics of the national publishing market. Methodology: The study draws on findings from a broader mixed-method research project combining qualitative and quantitative tools, including in-depth interviews, surveys with editorial teams, catalog analysis, and review of institutional documents. This approach enabled the identification of the material, spatial, and symbolic conditions that shape literary publishing in provincial contexts, as well as the strategies deployed by university presses to participate in cultural and commercial circuits. Results: The analysis shows that university presses function as compensatory institutions within a geographically concentrated market, while also facing budgetary constraints inherent to the public university system. They play a key role in shaping cultural repertoires, professionalizing editorial practices, and consolidating active editorial zones beyond Buenos Aires. Conclusions: Provincial university presses develop specific modes of insertion and positioning that reveal new articulations between universities, literature, and the book market, contributing to a more diverse editorial geography within the Argentine publishing ecosystem.

keywords: university publishing, editorial policies, literary production, publishing geography, market, sociology of the book
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Jacobi, J. (2026). Academic Dynamics and Market Logics in University Publishing Across Argentine Provinces (1985–2020). Revista Estrategia Organizacional, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.22490/25392786.11033
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