Evaluating the higher education productivity of Chinese and European "elite" universities using a meta-frontier approach

Title
Evaluating the higher education productivity of Chinese and European "elite" universities using a meta-frontier approach
Publication Date
2021-07
Author(s)
Agasisti, Tommaso
Yang, Guo-liang
Song, Yao-yao
Tran, Carolyn-Thi Thanh Dung
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5798-0543
Email: ttran43@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ttran43
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Akademiai Kiado Rt
Place of publication
Hungary
DOI
10.1007/s11192-021-03978-z
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/71761
Abstract

This research focuses on a sample of European and Chinese elite universities for the period 2011–2015. We adopt a meta-frontier methodology to decompose their overall productivity in three main determinants: (1) technical efficiency compared with contemporaneous technology, (2) change in technical efficiency and (3) technology relative superiority of the two groups of universities. The results reveal different patterns of evolution: Chinese institutions’ productivity grows faster than that of their European counterparts (+ 7.15%/year vs 4.51%/year), however the latter maintain a higher level of technology in efficient production as a group.

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Citation
Scientometrics, 126(7), p. 5819-5853
ISSN
1588-2861
0138-9130
Start page
5819
End page
5853
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International

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