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A DEA Approach to the Relative Efficiency of Portuguese Public Universities
Afonso, António; Santos, Mariana - 2008
We employ Data Envelopment Analysis, to estimate efficiency scores for Portuguese public universities. The input measures are constructed from the number of teachers and from universities' spending while the output measures are based on the undergraduate success rate and on the number of...
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Students and Teachers : A DEA Approach to the Relative Efficiency of Portuguese Public Universities
Afonso, António; Santos, Mariana - 2005
We employ a non-parametric methodology, Data Envelopment Analysis, to estimate efficiency scores for Portuguese public universities, using data mainly for 2003. The input measures are constructed from the number of teachers and from universities' spending while the outputs measures are based on...
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The efficiency of universities in achieving sustainable development goals
Perović, Lena Malešević; Kosor, Maja Mihaljević - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 22 (2020) 54, pp. 516-532
Envelopment Analysis (DEA) results indicate that, at a macro level, only three to four countries in our sample are fully efficient …
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How to measure research efficiency in higher education? : research grants vs. publication output
Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2018
An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall amount of research grants. The present study...
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Efficiency of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide : an empirical DEA investigation ased on institutional publication numbers and estimated academic staff numbe...
Bornmann, Lutz; Gralka, Sabine Marlene; Moya Anegón, … - 2020
One of the core indicators in the field of scientometrics is the number of papers published by a unit within a given period. However, such indicators can only be assessed properly by considering the unit’s available resources. When evaluating the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175828
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The total efficiency of teaching activity of Polish higher education institutions
Brzezicki, Łukasz; Pietrzak, Piotr; Cieciora, Małgorzata - In: Foundations of Management : the journal of Warsaw … 12 (2020) 1, pp. 19-30
education institutions in 2015. The study used the EBM model belonging to the nonparametric DEA method. The output of the …
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Persistent inefficiency in the higher education sector : evidence from Germany
Gralka, Sabine - 2016
Evaluations of the Higher Education Sector are receiving increased attention, due to the rising expenditures and the absence of efficiency enhancing market pressure. To what extent universities are able to eliminate inefficiency is a question that has only partially been answered. This paper...
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The transient and persistent efficiency of Italian and German universities : a stochastic frontier analysis
Agasisti, Tommaso; Gralka, Sabine - 2017
Despite measures on the European level to increase the compatibility between the HE sectors of the member states, the recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency term according to the two management levels each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729394
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Efficiency of Universities and Research-Focused Institutions Worldwide : An Empirical DEA Investigation Based on Institutional Publication Numbers and Estimated Academic Staff Numb...
Bornmann, Lutz - 2020
One of the core indicators in the field of scientometrics is the number of papers published by a unit within a given period. However, such indicators can only be assessed properly by considering the unit's available resources. When evaluating the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839362
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The graduation shift of German universities of applied sciences
Bornmann, Lutz; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Gralka, Sabine Marlene - 2018
results of the standard Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and graduation rates. Thus, we recommend the graduation shift as an … alternative method of efficiency measurement in the teaching area. Compared to the DEA, the computation of the shift is easy, the …
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