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An empirical analysis of administrative economic efficiency in Sabah local government: A dea application Siew King Ting, Brian Dollery and Rene Villano

Malaysian local government reform has been addressed through various public policies aimed at improving its performance over the decades. An important question which arises is whether these technological and management programs have translated into performance gains, particularly in the corporate ce...

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Main Authors: Ting, Siew King, Dollery, Brian, Villano, Rene
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Sarawak 2017
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Public policy (General). Policy sciences
Social values
Human physiology
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/33980/1/33980.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.339802022-08-26T09:02:21Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/33980/ An empirical analysis of administrative economic efficiency in Sabah local government: A dea application Siew King Ting, Brian Dollery and Rene Villano Ting, Siew King Dollery, Brian Villano, Rene Public policy (General). Policy sciences Social values Human physiology Malaysian local government reform has been addressed through various public policies aimed at improving its performance over the decades. An important question which arises is whether these technological and management programs have translated into performance gains, particularly in the corporate centres of local authorities (LAs). Using a panel data of two inputs and four outputs from 2000 to 2012, a two-stage double bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method is employed to estimate administrative technical efficiency (TE) in the corporate centres of 17 LAs in the Malaysian state of Sabah. The results showed an overall inadequate mean of TE scores and minor fluctuations in TE scores over the years under analysis, illustrating the rigidity of management performance. On average, the LAs recorded TE scores of 0.52, which implied that the LAs should be able to increase output by 48% while maintaining the same amount of input. The big urban LAs performed better with the TE scores of 0.60; while the small urban LAs recorded lower TE scores of 0.43. Further analysis demonstrated that the environmental variable, urban population bore a negative relationship to the TE scores. Several public policy recommendations are proposed Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Sarawak 2017-05 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/33980/1/33980.pdf An empirical analysis of administrative economic efficiency in Sabah local government: A dea application Siew King Ting, Brian Dollery and Rene Villano. (2017) International Journal of Service Management and Sustainability (IJSMS), 2 (2). pp. 1-18. ISSN 2550-1569 http://www.ijsmssarawak.com/
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topic Public policy (General). Policy sciences
Social values
Human physiology
spellingShingle Public policy (General). Policy sciences
Social values
Human physiology
Ting, Siew King
Dollery, Brian
Villano, Rene
An empirical analysis of administrative economic efficiency in Sabah local government: A dea application Siew King Ting, Brian Dollery and Rene Villano
description Malaysian local government reform has been addressed through various public policies aimed at improving its performance over the decades. An important question which arises is whether these technological and management programs have translated into performance gains, particularly in the corporate centres of local authorities (LAs). Using a panel data of two inputs and four outputs from 2000 to 2012, a two-stage double bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method is employed to estimate administrative technical efficiency (TE) in the corporate centres of 17 LAs in the Malaysian state of Sabah. The results showed an overall inadequate mean of TE scores and minor fluctuations in TE scores over the years under analysis, illustrating the rigidity of management performance. On average, the LAs recorded TE scores of 0.52, which implied that the LAs should be able to increase output by 48% while maintaining the same amount of input. The big urban LAs performed better with the TE scores of 0.60; while the small urban LAs recorded lower TE scores of 0.43. Further analysis demonstrated that the environmental variable, urban population bore a negative relationship to the TE scores. Several public policy recommendations are proposed
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author Ting, Siew King
Dollery, Brian
Villano, Rene
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title An empirical analysis of administrative economic efficiency in Sabah local government: A dea application Siew King Ting, Brian Dollery and Rene Villano
title_short An empirical analysis of administrative economic efficiency in Sabah local government: A dea application Siew King Ting, Brian Dollery and Rene Villano
title_full An empirical analysis of administrative economic efficiency in Sabah local government: A dea application Siew King Ting, Brian Dollery and Rene Villano
title_fullStr An empirical analysis of administrative economic efficiency in Sabah local government: A dea application Siew King Ting, Brian Dollery and Rene Villano
title_full_unstemmed An empirical analysis of administrative economic efficiency in Sabah local government: A dea application Siew King Ting, Brian Dollery and Rene Villano
title_sort empirical analysis of administrative economic efficiency in sabah local government: a dea application siew king ting, brian dollery and rene villano
publisher Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Sarawak
publishDate 2017
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/33980/1/33980.pdf
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