One of the unintended consequences of the New Public Management (NPM) in universities is often feared to be a division between elite institutions focused on research and large institutions with teaching missions. However, institutional isomorphisms provide counter-incentives. For example, university rankings focus on certain output parameters such as publications, but not on others (e.g., paten...

purpose: the purpose of this research is to identify and validate indicators used to evaluate research productivity of iran universities based on view of research assistants and managers of universities across the country.methodology: in other to achieve this aim documentary method and survey method were applied to identification and validation of these indicators respectively.. sample of this ...

as rising unemployment levels continually erode job opportunities in southern punjab, it is essay to assume that entrepreneurship would be concluded as the next-best career option; however, university graduates show very low interest level in becoming entrepreneurs. having observed this disinterest, southern punjab economic policies have put in place initiatives encouraging youth entrepreneursh...

introduction: in the current world of business, benefiting from information technology is considered as one of the main factors to develop and improve the performance of organizations. this study was performed to identify access to infrastructures of information technology among the managers and executive experts of health departments in iranian universities of medical sciences. it also tried t...

background: moving toward progress in every country starts from universities. intellectual capital is a very strong theory that all knowledge-based organizations can utilize to improve their efficacy and productivity.  the purpose of this research was to evaluate the structural equation modeling of knowledge conversion process upon intellectual capital components in public universities of isfah...

The article is aimed at discussing China's colleges and universities of the personnel system reform, from the aspects such as the nature of competition, the characteristics of modern management, the nature of human resources management and colleges and universities’ morality, is to prove that the universities carry out full internal competition for posts is wrong, and suggest to use the system ...

Several experiences and results of the Tablet PC adoption have been reported, mainly in American universities. Although the benefits seem to be highly interesting, it is not clear if they are replicable in developing countries. In order to try to understand the impact of Tablet PCs on engineering education in Chile, the authors conducted several experiments at the two traditional Chilean univer...

Universities are by their nature learning based organizations. They deliver knowledge to students through teaching processes. Students acquire knowledge through learning processes, from their professors and from other different knowledge resources. Since learning is a fundamental process within any university, people may consider universities as being learning organizations. This is a major err...

Evaluating the efficiency of decision making units has been frequently elaborated on in numerous publications. In this paper, the theoretical framework for a novel method of Distance Based Analysis (DBA) is presented. In addition, the method is performed on a sample of the ARWU’s top 54 Universities of the United States; the findings of which clearly demonstrate that the best ranked Universitie...