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Frontier and envelopment evaluations of university graduation efficiencies and productivities : elements for performance-based funding
Sav, G. Thomas - In: Problems and perspectives in management : PPM 10 (2012) 4, pp. 71-79
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What happens after enrollment? : an analysis of the time path of racial differences in GPA and major choice
Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban M.; Spenner, Ken - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-24
At the private university we analyze, the gap between white and black grade point averages falls by half between the students’ freshmen and senior year. This outcome could suggest that affirmative action policies are playing a key role to reduce racial differences. However, this convergence...
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Employment status and job-studies relevance of social science graduates : the experience from a Greek public university
Kalamatianou, Aglaia G.; Kougioumoutzaki, Foteini - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 1, pp. 51-75
Research on social science graduates’ employment prospects reaches contradictor conclusions intensifying the scepticism on the value of these disciplines in the labour market. The paper examines two important labour market outcomes of these graduates, employment status and job-studies...
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Managing operating efficiencies of publicly owned universities : American university stochastic frontier estimates using panel data
Sav, G. Thomas - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 1, pp. 1-23
, 2005-06 through 2008-09. Translog cost frontiers are estimated under two alternative efficiency models whereby …
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Productivity, efficiency, and managerial performance regress and gains in United States universities : a data envelopment analysis
Sav, G. Thomas - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 3, pp. 13-32
undergone productivity and efficiency changes, partly due to managerial performance, during the 2005-09 academic years. Using … higher education. DEA efficiency and returns to scale estimates are provide d. In addition, university total factor …, productivity gains appeared in concert with the crisis. Managerial efficiency tended to hamper productivit y gains but, on the …
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The board structure and performance of private universities
Chiang, Hsiang-tsai; Lin, Mei-chih - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 4, pp. 185-208
This study applies the structure and operations of private universities' board to analyze the establishment of the structure and operating mechanism for the private universities boards as well as the relevance with school performance. The analysis of board forms shows that the numbers of...
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Positive and negative impact of increased tertiary attainment
Busikova, Alena - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 6 (2013) 1, pp. 41-57
The theory of human capital clearly states that the investments into the education bring many benefits and are worth …
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Rankings, accreditations, and international exchange students
Marconi, Gabriele - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-22
Do international university rankings or professional accreditations affect the preferences of exchange students over different institutions? This paper investigates the question by analysing the determinants of Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (SBE) students’ choices of...
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Metodología docente y evaluación por competencias: una experiencia en la materia Dirección de Producción
Martín-Pe˜na, María Luz; Díaz-Garrido, Eloísa; … - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 18 (2012) 3, pp. 237-247
The design of the new study plans adapted to the guidelines of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) attempt to bring business reality closer to the students, involving them into their learning process adopting an active model and participation and providing them a favourable framework in...
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The stock selection problem : is the stock selection approach more important than the optimization method? : evidence from the Danish stock market
Grobys, Klaus - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 1, pp. 143-162
Passive investment strategies basically aim to replicate an underlying benchmark. Thereby, the management usually selects a subset of stocks being employed in the optimization procedure. Apart from the optimization procedure, the stock selection approach determines the stock portfolios's...
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