Paradox of research productivity of higher education institutions in Arab Gulf countries: The case of the UAE

Karabchuk, Tatiana; Shomotova, Aizhan; Chmel, Kirill

doi:10.1111/hequ.12347

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“…Such projects include paperless transactions, branch digitization projects and banks' plethora of distribution channels to reduce the human traffic in the banking halls. While this result confirms the previous empirical studies (Gholami et al, 2004; Ekata, 2012b; Faha & Vaumi, 2015; Kariuki, 2005; Mithas et al, 2011; Masli et al, 2011; Arora and Rahman, 2017; Karabchuk et al, 2021; Viollaz, 2019; Wimelius et al, 2021; Wossen et al, 2019), the result invalidates the productivity paradox theory of technology developed and popularized by Solow (1987) Liu, C. and Saam, M. (2021) which posits that investments in information technology do not affect the efficiency of firms.Specifically, the study result shows that investments in information technology by local banks in Ghana enhance efficiency. This is not surprising because for local banks to increase their market share and compete favorably with their foreign counterparts, local banks have moved away from traditional banking by reengineering their processes, restructuring and cost‐cutting that are often necessary to realize the potential benefits of information systems.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…Using data from 2011-2013, Viollaz (2018) concludes that internet adoption increases firms' labor productivity among micro and small firms in Peru. These results support similar studies by Liu and Saam (2021) Karabchuk, T., Shomotova, A., & Chmel, K. (2021) Wossen et al (2019). These studies suggest and support policies oriented towards the promotion of adoption of ICT.…”

Section: Empirical Evidencesupporting

confidence: 91%

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The productivity paradox of information technology: The Ghanaian bank–level evidence

Boadi

Mawutor

Dzorka

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E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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This study attempts to investigate the impact of information technology (IT) investments on efficiency among banks in Ghana. The study further tests the presence of the productivity paradox in the Ghanaian banking sector. This study employs a random effect model (REM) using 23 banks in Ghana from 2000 to 2019, thus yielding 460 observations. The study revealed that there is a significant and negative relationship between IT investments and cost to income ratio used as a surrogate for banks' efficiency. This result, therefore, suggests that investment in IT translates into banks' efficiency. The study further revealed that varied results are produced when the same relationship is tested in terms of banks' ownership structures, different minimum capital requirement regimes and listing status of banks in Ghana. The findings also suggest that while investment in technology by locallyowned banks enhances efficiency, the introduction and changes of minimum capital requirements do not translate into banks' efficiency. The results have implications for the management of banks, governments and regulators. It shows the need for policy and investments that improve state-of-the-art technology.banks, cost to income ratio, efficiency, random effect model | INTRODUCTIONProductivity paradox of technology developed and popularized by Solow (1987) posits that as more investment is made in technology, performance may go down instead of up. The productivity paradox of technology is becoming increasingly prevalent in the service sector (Brynjolfsson, 1993). Notwithstanding, the empirical evidence on the banking industry is limited.Recent studies document that there has been considerable advancement in the banking industry globally over the years (Kayisire & Wei, 2016;Pathak et al., 2019). Kayisire and Wei (2016) concluded that most developing countries, particularly the African nations, have shown a significant improvement in technology adoption and usage during the last two decades. Abor (2005) asserts that apart from staff costs and other operational costs, technology is usually an item in the budget with the highest cost of most banks, and the fastest-growing item as well. A major change noticed in the Ghanaian banking system was the introduction of information technology (IT) in their operations. In the past, governments have attempted several digitization projects and policies. A sustainability-driven move embarked by the present government on a call for paperless transactions in the country has been embraced by a lot of businesses. Banks have also responded positively to this call by pursuing vigorously the integration of IT in modern banking services. Key among these initiatives are as follows:First, paper works have been reduced with the introduction of branch digitization projects that seek to automate branch banking. Second, to reduce the human traffic in the banking halls, staffs have been trained to educate and encourage customers to use the bank's plethora

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The productivity paradox of information technology: The Ghanaian bank–level evidence

Boadi

Mawutor

Dzorka

et al. 2022

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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“…There was also general dissatisfaction with the criteria of research productivity, which primarily focused on publications in national or in particular international journals, which suited science best (Karabchuk et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

Rewarding academics: Experiences of the Tenure Track System in Pakistan

Khan

Jabeen

Christensen

2022

Higher Education Quarterly

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Pakistan introduced the Tenure Track System (TTS) as a new performance-based reform in public universities in 2005. The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences of higher education authorities, university leaders and tenure-track faculty about the implementation of this reform. This is a qualitative interpretive study and utilised a nested case study design, focusing on two cases-Science Faculty and Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty in a large provincial university. It utilises three perspectives taken from organisation theory-instrumental, cultural and myth perspectives. The main results show instrumental problems of hierarchical authority and horizontal coordination, lack of expertise to implement, cultural compatibility problems through active resistance from some groups and active use of symbols to modify the impression of a challenging reform implementations. Summing up, this is a Western-inspired reform that meet challenging conditions in Pakistan, making is rather less successful.

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“…The study has not employed higher education institutions and research centers as a co-variate as data on number of higher education institutions and granular data on their research aspects is not available for all the countries studied. Both Al Marzouqi et al (2019) and Karabchuk et al (2021) have cited in their respective studies about the constraints in obtaining information on higher education sector research performance in the UAE. Future studies can evaluate the research performance of UAE using other techniques such as bibliometric maps and network visualization techniques and keyword co-occurrence analysis to examine the important focus areas of research.…”

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Benchmarking the research performance of United Arab Emirates with gulf cooperation council countries – A bibliometric study

2022

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The research performance of a country is an indicator of its scientific progress and benchmarking it with regional countries is critical to assess a country’s regional competitiveness. This study aims to assess and benchmark the research productivity of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) against other member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), namely with Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain, who have similar macroeconomic and socio-cultural characteristics. Scopus was used as the data source to extract the research output of each of the six countries studied for the period 1995–2019. Bibliometric indicators covering both quantity and impact of research such as publication output, citation, and collaboration indicators were used to assess the research performance of UAE and other GCC countries. The findings indicate good progress in the UAE’s overall research performance during the period of study. Also, UAE’s research performance in most of the bibliometric indicators is comparable or superior to the other GCC countries. This study is the first of its kind and addresses the dearth of bibliometric studies assessing UAE’s research productivity and GCC countries in general. The findings are useful for administrators and policymakers to benchmark the performance of the UAE with other GCC countries, including its impact, growth, and trajectories. For researchers, the study indicators and methods can be replicated to assess the overall research performance of other countries.

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Paradox of research productivity of higher education institutions in Arab Gulf countries: The case of the UAE

Cited by 14 publications

References 78 publications

The productivity paradox of information technology: The Ghanaian bank–level evidence

The productivity paradox of information technology: The Ghanaian bank–level evidence

Rewarding academics: Experiences of the Tenure Track System in Pakistan

Benchmarking the research performance of United Arab Emirates with gulf cooperation council countries – A bibliometric study

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