The chapter focus on the alignment of Argentine universities to the global quality assurance movement and explore the reasons why the Argentine reaction has been slow. With historical background and analysis of the current context, the chapter provides evidence for the hypothesis that a slow response results from the complexity associated with the decision-making process of collegiate governing bodies. We contend that the benchmark set up by new quality assurance standards involve a social, as well as technical, dimension and argue further that the institution of a quality assurance mechanism has been slow to the way the autonomous governing bodies function as social units.