In recent years the higher education sector (HE) has been influenced by a marketised approach in which students are perceived as customers and in which student satisfaction is used as a measure of educational quality. Demand-driven education can be looked at as one of the consequences of this...

The Ethiopian higher education system has realized enormous growth in the recent years and its future ambitions require additional capacity development in quality and in quantity. In planning and monitoring capacity development, organizational assessment plays a major role. This paper outlines...

Higher education (HE) is increasingly recognized for its contribution to socio-economic development, both in developed and developing countries. Investments in HE are investments in human capital leading to public and private returns. This recognition has contributed to the worldwide trend of...

HEI in developing countries face the requirement to increase performance and improve results to enlarge their contribution to socio-economic development and poverty reduction. Organizational capacity is considered a pre-requisite for this performance. Organizational capacity is enhanced by...

In this paper we address that question making use of a data set on a Dutch consultancy company in the water, infrastructure and spatial development sector. The organization is special in its ownership and governance structure, in the sense that it has a unique shareholder system.

In this paper we explore the impact of imperfectly competitive input markets on production function estimation. First order pro…t maximizing conditions are altered when frictions in input markets cause the elasticity of input supply to the …rm to be …nite. A consequence of this is that the...

The perception of many people who live in the developed economies of Europe and America are often heard saying that the days of manufacturing are numbered in these countries and that China is the new “factory of the world”. This paper demonstrates how far from reality such a broad sweeping...