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2016
Journal Article
Titel

Institutional change and the optimal size of universities

Abstract
The last years have been characterized by tremendous institutional change in the university sector induced by far-reaching Higher Education Reforms (e.g. Bologna). Building on loose-coupling theory, we hypothesize that smaller universities were better able to adapt to the Higher Education Reforms of the recent years, triggering a decline in the optimal size of universities in the reform period. Using a 12-year panel data set on the inputs and outputs of German universities, we find a tremendous decrease in optimal university size, which is driven by the decline in the optimal scale for the provision of teaching activities. Our results also suggest this drop is also due to fact that the relatively higher administrative overheads of larger universities become an organizational liability in times of rapid institutional change.
Author(s)
Schubert, Torben
Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI
Yang, Guoliang
Institute of Policy and Management, Beijing
Zeitschrift
Scientometrics
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10.1007/s11192-016-2015-1
Language
English
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  • university

  • optimal size

  • Most Productive Scale...

  • loosely-coupling

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