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Färe, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna

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“…The progress in measuring efficiency, caused by the use of a more general and flexible approach, which is the Directional Distance Function (DDF), has made this approach increasingly used to measure the efficiency of business entities under the DEA methodology. Färe and Grosskopf (2000), presenting the relationship between the Shephard distance function (1953,1970), whose idea is used in radial models, and the directional distance function proposed by Chambers, Chung, and Färe (1996), indicate that it is an important tool in production theory. The Shephard distance function is a special case of the directional distance function.…”

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Measurement of Efficiency of Didactic Activities of Public Universities of Technology in Poland: Directional Distance Function With Undesirable Output Approach

Brzezicki

Rusielik

2020

Business, Management and Education

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Purpose – The conducted research aimed at estimating the technical efficiency of didactic activity in the group of universities of technology in Poland using the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method. Research methodology – The measurement was based on the model of directional distance function with undesirable output under variable return-to-scale and output-oriented (DDF BadOutput-V-O). Findings – The research allowed to group universities in 2010 and 2015 into three categories, i.e. efficient universities and universities above and below the average efficiency. It has been shown that it is justified to use alternative models of efficiency measurement covering different perspectives. The application of the model from a financial and employment perspective showed significant differences in performance levels in some cases. Research limitations – This study only looks at universities of technology, so the future study should be extended to other universities and compare efficiency of higher education with the level of study effectiveness (dropout rate education, graduation rates). Practical implications – The use of the DDF model with undesirable output allowed to obtain results closer to the actual conditions of teaching in public universities than in the case of using classic DEA models, wich only take the desired output into accoount. Originality/Value – The originality of the work lies in the use of a more general and flexible DDF approach than the classical DEA models, which made it possible to estimate the efficiency of universities taking into account the desirable (positive) and undesirable (negative) output.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measurement of Efficiency of Didactic Activities of Public Universities of Technology in Poland: Directional Distance Function With Undesirable Output Approach

Brzezicki

Rusielik

2020

Business, Management and Education

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“…∈R , the directional distance technology based on Chambers et al (1998) and Färe and Grosskopf (2000), is introduced as:…”

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Technical Efficiency Heterogeneity of Tertiary Institutions in Viet Nam: A Metafrontier Directional Technology Approach

Villano

Tran

2019

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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The higher education system of Viet Nam has been undergoing reform process with the aim of seeking a position in the world’s education market. However, recent changes in the system have made the operational efficiency of the system less stable, thus making it more challenging to improve the country’s universities world rankings. In this paper, we investigate the performance of tertiary education institutions in Viet Nam and evaluate the efficiency gap between colleges and universities. Using the metafrontier directional technology approach, we estimate both the group frontier and metafrontier efficiencies for 112 universities and 141 colleges using data for 2011–2013 and compute their differences imposed by the technology associated with different levels of ownership and locations. The findings showed that the performance of universities were better than that of colleges, at 0.837 0.774, respectively. However, under an unrestricted metafrontier framework, the metatechnology ratios suggest that universities and colleges were operated comparatively well by potentially increasing their performance by 7.8 and 5.0 per cent, respectively. Both urban universities and colleges are found to be more efficient than their rural counterparts, but the effects of ownerships showed mixed results on the performance of universities and colleges. Our results highlight the need for appropriate policies and enabling environment that will enhance the performance of each institution. It is imperative to re-evaluate the specific role and individual contributions of colleges and universities in the national education system and assist rural universities and colleges to explore their full potential to enhance their performance.

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“…The directional distance function (DDF) is an important tool to measure output and input distances and get the optimal solution based on production theory [22,23]. Hence, DDF was used to measure the optimal solution of the PPS.…”

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A Dynamic Analysis to Evaluate the Environmental Performance of Cities in China

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Abstract:With the contradiction between energy supply and demand around the world, urbanization formed with high-investment, high-consumption, and high-emission has significantly impaired the ecological environment of China. The evaluation of environmental impact is a must for decision-makings related to sustainable urbanization. This paper assessed the dynamic environmental performance of 285 cities in China from 2005 to 2013 based on the Malmquist-Luenberger index, an expanded data envelopment analysis (DEA) model. To ensure comparability among cities, a two-step clustering method was used to classify all cities into three types. From the results, we found (1) 166 and 185 cities' environmental conditions remained the improvement during the research period under the meta-frontier and group frontier respectively. (2) Low and Medium energy intensity cities performed better than high energy intensity cities. (3) The environmental performance under the group frontier was overestimated compared with the meta-frontier. (4) The trends of environmental improvement and economic growth are significantly inconsistent. Overall, all ways to decrease undesirable outputs and increase desirable outputs, such as technological innovation, industrial structure optimization and regional cooperation, should be encouraged to achieve urban, regional and country sustainability.

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Cited by 347 publications

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Measurement of Efficiency of Didactic Activities of Public Universities of Technology in Poland: Directional Distance Function With Undesirable Output Approach

Measurement of Efficiency of Didactic Activities of Public Universities of Technology in Poland: Directional Distance Function With Undesirable Output Approach

Technical Efficiency Heterogeneity of Tertiary Institutions in Viet Nam: A Metafrontier Directional Technology Approach

A Dynamic Analysis to Evaluate the Environmental Performance of Cities in China

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