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Journal of Applied Sciences

Year: 2010 | Volume: 10 | Issue: 22 | Page No.: 2875-2880
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2010.2875.2880
The Measurement of Productivity Growth in the Academic Departments using Malmquist Productivity Index
M.M. Rayeni, G. Vardanyan and F.H. Saljooghi

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to analyze efficiency and productivity growth of the academic departments in two periods of time 2003-2004 and 2008-2009 academic years. Efficiency measures are calculated by a non-parametric approach known as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Productivity is measured by the Malmquist index. The study shows how DEA-based Malmquist productivity index can be employed to evaluate the technology and productivity changes resulted in the university. Total productivity growth has been found, but there is a variation among individual units, also increasing the frontier productivity and Technical Efficiency Change (TEC) indices which are parts of the decomposed total productivity have been shown.

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M.M. Rayeni, G. Vardanyan and F.H. Saljooghi, 2010. The Measurement of Productivity Growth in the Academic Departments using Malmquist Productivity Index. Journal of Applied Sciences, 10: 2875-2880.

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