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On The Industrial Organization Of Chinese Higher Education

Posted on:2006-11-28Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:W D ZhongFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360155968787Subject:Management Science and Engineering
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Looking back at the historical process, from agriculture society, industrial society to knowledge economy era, we can find that education is playing an increasingly important role in the development of economy. Especially today's economic development is based much more on intelligence level of labors than merely on natural resources or physical work, with the former replacing the latter as the key factor of production. Higher-education, the hightest level of education, shoulders the responsibility of educating well-qualified professionals for our nation and functions as motive power to develop science and technology, to speed economic development and to enhance the international competitiveness. With the intense international competition in the 21st century, Chinese higher-education has to devise forward-looking, practical and feasible industrial policies, from new perspectives, to realize the innovation and optimization of industrial organization, and thus paves the way of sustainability of higher-education of Chinese characteristic.Based on theoretical analyses of industrial organization theories of both domestic and abroad, scientific summarization has been made about market structure, market behaviour and market performance.Furthermore, the market scale of Chinese higher-education is defined. Based on the discussion of geographical factor and product factor, higher-education is labelled as domestic market. Through the analyses of market structure and the calculation of the concentration ratio and Herfinder Index, our higher-education market is designated as low concentration ratio market. After the thorough study of product variation of Chinese higher-education, it is pointed out that some universities are taking limited share in education students, but almost monopolize all top students and their good teaching resources further ensure the quality of students, which makes market products vary much from one another. These universities are taking the oligarchy position. The input of fixed cost is high and many teaching and research staff are needed, which all intimidate the potential competitors. Higher barriers are there in the market. It is concluded that ourhigher-education market is a low concentration ratio, oligarchy market.The thesis also studies the scale economy of higher-education, starting with the analyses of cost input and the interrelationship between cost input and scale economy. With the help of the software, named MATLAB, the thesis makes curve simulation of the scale of students and study expense per student, and compute the optimized economy scale intervals and further conducts linear regression analysis and significance test.Merging process among colleges and universities is also covered, with the analyses of four basic factors, namely, merging decisions, skills, rules and targets. The measurability of unitily with the employment of the principles of systematic economics and welfare economics are also made in the thesis. The thesis is in favor of the merging decision since it can help strengthen the core competitiveness by raising the disciplinary level, improving the scientific research, bettering teaching quality, financing school operation money and improving administration.The thesis also focuses its attention on the lagging effect of higher-education input compared with the GDP growth, the relationship between the two and the contribution made by higher-education input to GDP.Based on the thorough analyses of industrial structure, the thesis proposes suggestions about the organization policy and some valuable solutions, among which are: the further adjustment and optimization of industrial organization of higher-education; the encouragement of moderate expansion; further implementation of reform of organization management system; the encouragement of product variation and pursuit of characteristic development; speeding the open process to the outside world. Therefore, the thesis offers some scientific suggestion for optimization of our higher-education industrial organization.
Keywords/Search Tags:higher education, the market structure, the scale economy, merge, the industrial organization policy
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