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| Originalsprache | Englisch |
|---|---|
| Aufsatznummer | 101676 |
| Fachzeitschrift | Socio-economic planning sciences |
| Jahrgang | 88 |
| Frühes Online-Datum | 29 Juni 2023 |
| Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 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.
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- Sozialwissenschaften (insg.)
- Geografie, Planung und Entwicklung
- Volkswirtschaftslehre, Ökonometrie und Finanzen (insg.)
- Volkswirtschaftslehre und Ökonometrie
- Betriebswirtschaft, Management und Rechnungswesen (insg.)
- Strategie und Management
- Entscheidungswissenschaften (insg.)
- Statistik, Wahrscheinlichkeit und Ungewissheit
- Entscheidungswissenschaften (insg.)
- Managementlehre und Operations Resarch
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in: Socio-economic planning sciences, Jahrgang 88, 101676, 08.2023.
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TY - JOUR
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
Y1 - 2023/8
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.
AB - 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.
KW - DEA
KW - Efficiency
KW - Mission-orientation
KW - Sustainability
KW - Universities
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U2 - 10.1016/j.seps.2023.101676
DO - 10.1016/j.seps.2023.101676
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JO - Socio-economic planning sciences
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