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The hybrid returns-to-scale model and its extension by production trade-offs: an application to the efficiency assessment of public universities in Malaysia

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posted on 2015-07-07, 15:31 authored by Victor PodinovskiVictor Podinovski, Wan Rohaida Wan Husain
Most applications of data envelopment analysis (DEA) employ standard constant or variable returns-to-scale (CRS or VRS) models. In this paper we suggest that these models may sometimes underutilize our knowledge of the underlying production process. For example, in the context of higher education considered in the reported application, individual universities often maintain a certain student-to-staff ratio which points that there should be an approximately proportional relationship between students and staff, at least in the medium to long run. A different example is an observation that the teaching of postgraduate students generally requires more resources than the teaching of the same number of undergraduate students. In order to incorporate such information in a DEA model, we propose a novel approach that combines the recently developed hybrid returns-to-scale DEA model with the use of production trade-offs. The suggested approach leads to a better-informed model of production technology than the conventional DEA models. We illustrate this methodology by an application to Malaysian public universities. This approach results in a tangibly better efficiency discrimination than would be possible with the standard DEA models.

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School

  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Published in

Annals of Operations Research

Citation

PODINOVSKI, V.V. and WAN HUSAIN, W.R., 2015. The hybrid returns-to-scale model and its extension by production trade-offs: an application to the efficiency assessment of public universities in Malaysia. Annals of Operations Research, doi: 10.1007/s10479-015-1854-0

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© Springer Verlag

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

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The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-015-1854-0

ISSN

0254-5330

eISSN

1572-9338

Language

  • en