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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 101676 |
| Journal | Socio-economic planning sciences |
| Volume | 88 |
| Early online date | 29 Jun 2023 |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2023 |
Abstract
Academic research increasingly focuses on environmental sustainability as a specific societal mission to be addressed. However, the effects of the increasing sustainability orientation on output generation in public research organizations are largely unexplored. In this paper, we analyse the effects of the increasing importance of sustainability-oriented research topics on research and teaching efficiency in German universities in 2018. Our results are mixed. On the one hand, we find that a higher share of publications related to sustainability increases research efficiency. On the other hand, it decreases teaching efficiency. The latter negative effect seems to relate primarily to a notion of teaching efficiency associated with quantity rather than the quality of teaching output. We conclude that the tendency to focus academic research on challenge-driven sustainability orientation can have non-trivial effects on the efficiency of output generation and therefore needs to be considered ex-ante by policy-makers, administrators and university managers.
Keywords
- DEA, Efficiency, Mission-orientation, Sustainability, Universities
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
- Economics and Econometrics
- Business, Management and Accounting(all)
- Strategy and Management
- Decision Sciences(all)
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
- Decision Sciences(all)
- Management Science and Operations Research
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In: Socio-economic planning sciences, Vol. 88, 101676, 08.2023.
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T1 - The effects of sustainability orientation on research and teaching efficiency in German universities
AU - Schubert, Torben
AU - Kroll, Henning
AU - Chavez, Cecilia Garcia
N1 - Funding Information: The authors acknowledge funding from the German Ministry of Education and Research ( BMBF ) under grant number 16PH20010 .
PY - 2023/8
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N2 - Academic research increasingly focuses on environmental sustainability as a specific societal mission to be addressed. However, the effects of the increasing sustainability orientation on output generation in public research organizations are largely unexplored. In this paper, we analyse the effects of the increasing importance of sustainability-oriented research topics on research and teaching efficiency in German universities in 2018. Our results are mixed. On the one hand, we find that a higher share of publications related to sustainability increases research efficiency. On the other hand, it decreases teaching efficiency. The latter negative effect seems to relate primarily to a notion of teaching efficiency associated with quantity rather than the quality of teaching output. We conclude that the tendency to focus academic research on challenge-driven sustainability orientation can have non-trivial effects on the efficiency of output generation and therefore needs to be considered ex-ante by policy-makers, administrators and university managers.
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