Measuring Productivity and Technology Changes in the Islamic Azad University in Iran

Mohammad Javad Mahmoudi ； Razieh Tabandeh ； Bahram Fathi

《Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology》 4卷22期 (2012/11) Pp. 4576-4581

並列摘要

The aim of this study is to estimate the productivity and technology changes in the Islamic Azad University (IAU) of Iran. The focus of this study is using a model of Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI). MPI is a body of research methodologies to evaluate overall efficiencies and identify the sources and estimate the amounts of inefficiencies in inputs and outputs. By far the largest single cause of universities' overall technical efficiency is pure technical efficiency, along with a considerable amount of scale inefficiency and a modest amount of Congestion. No obvious regional differences in the universities' productivity growth are apparent between 1999 and 2009. Decomposition of the MPI indicates that although there has been technological progress over the years, poor scale efficiency and technical efficiency have resulted in deterioration in the universities' average productivity.

並列關鍵字

Islamic Azad University ； malmqvist productivity index ； productivity ； technology changes