THE PERFORMANCE OF AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS

Economic Papers

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 145-163

  Carrington, Roger ^a   Coelli, Tim ^b   Rao, D S Prasada ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; Higher Education; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845915342     PISSN: 08120439     EISSN: 17593441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-3441.2005.tb01001.x     Document Type: Article

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