The impact of size and specialisation on universities' department performance: A DEA analysis applied to Austrian universities

Higher Education

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 517-538

  Leitner, Karl Heinz ^a   Prikoszovits, Julia ^b   Schaffhauser Linzatti, Michaela ^c   Stowasser, Rainer ^d   Wagner, Karin ^e  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Austrian Rectors' Conference ^*  (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d Office Austrian Science Board   (Austria)

^e Economic Analysis Division   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austria; Austria universities; Benchmarking; Data Envelopment Analysis; Efficiency evaluation; Scale effects; Specialisation patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249699610     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-006-0002-9     Document Type: Review

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