Economies of scope in research and teaching: a non-parametric investigation

Kristof De Witte, Nicky Rogge (), Laurens Cherchye and Tom Van Puyenbroeck
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Nicky Rogge: Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB)
Tom Van Puyenbroeck: Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB), KULeuven

No 2012/14, Working Papers from Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Faculteit Economie en Management

Abstract: We propose a non-parametric methodology to study the presence of economies of scope between teaching and research (i.e., the teaching-research nexus). In particular, the paper advocated a conditional version of the ‘benefit-of-the-doubt’ approach to estimate the relationship between the professors’ overall academic output, measured by a composite measure of multi-dimensional and importance-adjusted scores of teaching effectiveness and research productivity, and the time devoted to teaching and to research. The methodology is illustrated with a dataset of professors working at a Business & Administration department of a university college where the time allocation of teaching and research was assigned exogenously. The outcome of the analysis indicates the presence of limited scope economies for professors with an extensive research time.

Keywords: Teaching-research nexus; Data envelopment analysis; Conditional efficiency; Economies of scope; Higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 page
Date: 2012-02
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