Do university units differ in the efficiency of resource utilization?

Zara Daghbashyan

No 176, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: The efficiency of universities is attracting increased interest, with most studies comparing the performance between different universities. However, the within-university variation is largely overlooked in the literature. Using data envelopment analysis this paper identifies heterogeneity in the performance of 47 units of a leading Swedish university (the Royal Institute of Technology) in terms of resource utilization. The findings suggest the following: First, three quarters of the units exhibit similar high performance. Second, the units are more efficient in using resources for research than for teaching. Third, efficiency in research is highly correlated with efficiency in teaching, implying a complementary relationship.

Keywords: Technical and scale efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; universities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 I21 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2009-04-01, Revised 2012-12-17
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