[PDF] Top 20 A DEA APPROACH TO THE RELATIVE EFFICIENCY OF PORTUGUESE PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES

... This measurement issue is here considered in terms of efficiency measures comparing public resources - total expenditure and number of teachers per student - used by Portugu[r] ... See full document

... used the success rate in the year 2002/03 of the undergraduate students enrolled for the first time, on a faculty or institute ...(UNL-FCT) to 95.9 percent (UP-FMD), as can be ... See full document

... measuring the relative efficiency of a set of production systems or Decision Making Units (DMU) that have multiple inputs and ...composed of parallel units work individually; ... See full document

... strike to the public management model associated to the Welfare ...motivated the appearance of the so called New Public Management ...that the NPM ... See full document

... measurement of public sector performance, particularly when it concerns services provision, is a delicate empirical issue and the related literature, principally when it comes to aggregate ... See full document

... one of manager's main concerns in today competitive world, which covers all aspects and dimensions of organization and it is adequately flexible and ...So, the necessity of performance ... See full document

... compute DEA efficiency scores and Malmquist indexes for a panel data set comprising 68 Portuguese public hospitals belonging to the National Health System (NHS) in the ... See full document

... with the lack off competition pressures one municipality feels from other competing ...with the degree of choice mobile citizens/consumers do have to move into communities that offer a bundle ... See full document

... The DEA methodology however, is the most used approach when analyzing efficiency mostly due its capacity to evaluate technical performance utilizing price-free input/output ... See full document

... under DEA is concerned with understanding how each DMU is performing relative to others, the causes of inefficiency, and how a DMU can improve its performance to become ...sense, ... See full document

... believed to be the first who introduced robust optimization to handle uncertainty but his approach was too ...on the art of cone programming and it seems that their method ... See full document

... criteria to control universities production in qualitative ...Since universities and colleges are not profit-oriented organizations (considering just the fair and serious researching and ... See full document

... on the international comparative performance of the public sector in general and of health outcomes in particular, including Afonso, Schuknecht and Tanzi (2005) for public ... See full document

... sets of different specification DEA models and concluded that the choice of variables included in the DEA was ...valuable to distinguish between master and PhD level ... See full document

... addition to the training contents, the program seeks to identify emerging ideas, new technologies, new products or patents, in those universities, which will be worked on in a team, ... See full document

... in the tank. This might be explained by the fact that the tank has a more suitable morphology for water and nutrient uptake (Takahashi & Mercier, 2011), which provides a direct and continuous ... See full document

... through the ideologization of the values , of the contempt for the real, productive work represents a major ...in the world set the objective – within the ... See full document

... among the fastest growing in the world can be supported by ana- lyzing the data published in several ...2001 to 2011, in the worldwide scenario, Brazil moved from 13th to 7th ... See full document

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... household, the program caused an increase of more than 11 percentage points in the probability of attending ...in the estimated impact is the fact that his/her family is only ... See full document