Resources and Research Production in Higher Education: A Longitudinal Analysis of Chinese Universities, 2000–2010

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 869-891

  Zhang, Liang ^a   Bao, Wei ^b   Sun, Liang ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Financial resources; Human resources; Research production; Stochastic frontier analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957971240     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: 1573188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-016-9410-6     Document Type: Article

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