Efficiency of Entrepreneurial Universities in India: A Data Envelopment Analysis

Muralidharan Loganathan () and M. H. Bala Subrahmanya
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Muralidharan Loganathan: Indian Institute of Science
M. H. Bala Subrahmanya: Indian Institute of Science
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Bala Subrahmanya Mungila Hillemane

Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2023, vol. 14, issue 2, No 24, 1120-1144

Abstract: Abstract High expectations are placed on universities to deliver well beyond their traditional outcomes (graduation and research) and support societal outcomes as their third mission and beyond. Yet, we see a dearth of performance measurements and research comparing universities considering the third mission outcomes, particularly around entrepreneurship support. To address this need, we rely on the ambidexterity perspective and use a slack-based data envelopment analysis (DEA) to compare efficiencies of 28 Indian universities in delivering entrepreneurship support alongside their traditional outcomes. The contribution of the study is two-fold. Firstly, we rate and compare the universities and identify the orientations towards particular mission outcomes of graduation, research, and entrepreneurship support. From our analysis, we find that fully efficient universities were only a few and were performing well across all the three outcomes. Secondly, we then use orientation and efficiency as a way to measure extent to which the universities can pursue third mission outcomes given their history. We note a path dependence among private universities that have mostly developed with a graduation orientation, to shift to entrepreneurship support without a research base. The study also comments on improving the existing national university ranking mechanisms that use subjective weights and does not consider the scale and orientation of the universities.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial university; Efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; Third mission; Ambidexterity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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