Designing a Mathematical Model for Allocating Budget to University Research and Educational Goals:A Case Study in Shahed University

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1 استادیار دانشکده مدیریت دانشگاه شاهد، تهران، ایران

2 دانشیار دانشکده مدیریت دانشگاه شاهد، تهران، ایران

3 فوق لیسانس مدیریت دانشگاه شاهد، تهران، ایران

Abstract

Institutions of higher education, both public and private, are among the most important institutions of a country. Several economic factors have forced them to act for improving the cost-effectiveness of their activities and the quality of their products (outputs) is strongly expected. Such issues have led universities to focus on profit-making activities and commercialization like manufacturing industries. This propensity is grounded in the fact that manufacturing industries working under an efficient management system can produce very high-quality products. As a matter of fact, there is no such a model for academic contexts. Therefore, this paper is aimed at offering such a model. The coefficients and constants used in this model have all been extracted based on analyzing research and educational aspects of Shahed University. The proposed model is a lexicographic model which has thirty six decision variables that are broken down into two classes of university sources variables (fifteen) ...
Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies (Formerly known as Iranian Journal of Management Studies)
Volume 5, Issue 2 - Serial Number 1161725
Iranian Journal of Management Studies
July 2012
Pages 88-113

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