TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluating the higher education productivity of Chinese and European “elite” universities using a meta-frontier approach
AU - Agasisti, Tommaso
AU - Yang, Guo-liang
AU - Song, Yao-yao
AU - Tran, Carolyn-Thi Thanh Dung
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:66634
U2 - 10.1007/s11192-021-03978-z
DO - 10.1007/s11192-021-03978-z
M3 - Article
SN - 0138-9130
VL - 126
SP - 5819
EP - 5853
JO - Scientometrics
JF - Scientometrics
IS - 7
ER -