Tran, Carolyn-Thi Thanh

Dollery, Brian

Yarram, Subba Reddy

2023

<p>While a voluminous empirical literature has investigated university efficiency, much less attention has focused on the impact of administrative intensity on university performance. In this article, we seek to contribute to the empirical literature by examining the relationship between operational efficiency and administrative intensity in the Australian higher education sector over the period 2009/10–2018/19 using a second stage boots trapping Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) fractional regression model. We find that administrative intensity positively affects the performance of universities for both the standard and bias-corrected efficiency models. Moreover, administrative intensity exhibits an inverted U-shaped relationship with university efficiency. We also find that administrative intensity has a differential impact on the efficiency of the different types of university. Various public policy implications are considered.</p>

Economic Society of Australia. Economic Papers, 42(3), p. 282-305

1759-3441

0812-0439

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/58140

John Wiley & Sons, Inc

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

The Influence of Administrative Intensity on Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis of Australian Universities

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