Carolyn-Thi Thanh Dung Tran
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1502826 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Carolyn-Thi Thanh Dung Tran |
| PRENOMES | Carolyn-Thi Thanh Dung |
| SOBRENOME | Tran |
| ASSINATURA | TRAN C T D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of New England |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5798-0543 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Navigating the Covid-19 crisis
Extensive research has examined municipal resilience to external shocks; however, quantitative assessments of financial resilience based on performance remain limited. This paper addresses this gap by analysing financial sustainability in Victorian local governments across three phases: pre-crisis (2017/18–2018/19), the COVID-19 pandemic (2019/20–2020/21), and recovery (2021/22–2022/23). Using bias-corrected Data Envelopment Analysis, we find tha…
Administrative Intensity and Financial Sustainability
However, to date no attempt has been made to investigate the impact of administrative intensity on financial sustainability in the university sector.To address this gap in the literature, this paper examines the impact of administrative intensity on financial sustainability in Australian universities over the period 2009/10 to 2018/19.Our findings show that administrative intensity significantly affects the financial sustainability of Australian …
South African Local Government Efficiency and the Effect of Audit Outcome
While extensive research has explored municipal efficiency, the influence of audit outcomes on municipal performance remains underexplored. This study addresses this gap by investigating the relationship between operational efficiency and audit outcomes in South African local government. Using a second‐stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) fractional regression model for the period of 2017–2022, we find that audit outcomes do not have a direct ef…
An empirical analysis of the impact of administrative intensity on the operational efficiency of the Victoria state local government system in Australia
While a voluminous empirical literature has investigated municipal efficiency, much less attention has focused on the impact of administrative intensity on municipal performance. In this paper we seek to contribute to the empirical literature by examining the relationship between operational efficiency and administrative intensity in the Victorian local government system over the period 2014/15 to 2018/19 using a second stage bootstrapping Data E…
Administrative scale economies in public organisations
A voluminous empirical literature has examined scale economies in public organisations, particularly in local government. By contrast, little effort has been directed at the empirical investigation of economies of scale in higher education administration, including in Australian universities. To address this gap in the empirical literature, this paper examines administrative scale economies and task density in Australian public universities for t…
Administrative intensity and financial sustainability
A substantial empirical literature has examined the relationships between organizational characteristics and performance across the public sector, including the determinants of financial sustainability in local government. However, with the exception of one 2020 source, no attempt has been made to investigate the impact of administrative intensity on municipal financial sustainability. To address this gap in the empirical literature, this article…
Administrative intensity in local government
A vast empirical literature has investigated economies of scale in local service provision, especially in water and waste management. By contrast, the question of scale economies in local government administration has attracted much less attention, especially in Australian local government. To address this gap in the Australian empirical literature, we investigated administrative scale economies in the New South Wales (NSW) local government syste…
Cost efficiency – one size fits all? A university-level analysis of economies of scale and scope in Vietnamese higher education
Like other nations, Vietnam annually subsidies higher education via state budget to maintain academic operations of public institutions. However, the question of how to fairly and appropriately distribute state funding to public institutions is still challenging, therefore unfair distribution to some extent influence their cost efficiency. Using the quadratic cost function with random effects for a panel structure of 2011/12–2013/14, this paper a…
Evaluating the higher education productivity of Chinese and European “elite” universities using a meta-frontier approach
This research focuses on a sample of European and Chinese elite universities for the period 2011–2015. We adopt a meta-frontier methodology to decompose their overall productivity in three main determinants: (1) technical efficiency compared with contemporaneous technology, (2) change in technical efficiency and (3) technology relative superiority of the two groups of universities. The results reveal different patterns of evolution: Chinese insti…
Administrative intensity and local resident satisfaction in Victorian local government
A voluminous empirical literature has focused on organizational characteristics and their relationship to organizational performance in the public sector, including municipal efficiency. However, as yet no effort has been made to examine the impact of administrative intensity on the effectiveness of local authorities, as measured by local resident satisfaction surveys. To address this gap in the literature, this article investigates the effect of…
The impact of rate capping on local government expenditure
In common with higher tiers of government worldwide, Australian state governments often adopt highly interventionist ‘one-size-fits-all’ policies aimed at improving local government efficiency and performance. In this article, we employ recent expenditure data to investigate empirically the short-term impacts of rate capping on municipal expenditure in the Australian state of Victoria and to explore whether it had differential effects on spending…
An empirical analysis of municipal efficiency and local resident satisfaction by council type in Victorian local government
Although a voluminous empirical literature has examined local government efficiency, much less attention has focused on municipal effectiveness and almost no effort has been directed at the relationship between efficiency and effectiveness. In this paper, we seek to add to the latter nascent literature by investigating the relationship between operational efficiency and local resident satisfaction for three different municipal categories (metropo…
Council type and the determinants of municipal expenditure
Despite the ongoing failure of ‘one‐size‐fits‐all’ policies in the realm of local government policymaking worldwide, such as municipal mergers, public policymakers across Australian local government, including South Australia (SA), remain committed to uniform policy prescriptions that do not take into account the characteristics of different categories of local authorities. Furthermore, although a substantial body of empirical work exists on muni…
Amalgamation in action
Under its Fit for the Future reform programme, in May 2016 the New South Wales (NSW) government forcibly merged a number of municipalities, including the Armidale Dumaresq Council and the Guyra Shire Council in the New England region of northern NSW. Whilst scholarly attention has focused on the likely impact of municipal mergers on council performance at the system‐wide level (Bell, Dollery & Drew 2016; Economic Papers: A journal of applied econ…
An empirical analysis of municipal efficiency and local resident satisfaction by council type in Victorian local government
Although a voluminous empirical literature has examined local government efficiency, much less attention has focused on municipal effectiveness and almost no effort has been directed at the relationship between efficiency and effectiveness. In this paper, we seek to add to the latter nascent literature by investigating the relationship between operational efficiency and local resident satisfaction for three different municipal categories (metropo…
An empirical analysis of the impact of administrative intensity on the operational efficiency of the Victoria state local government system in Australia
While a voluminous empirical literature has investigated municipal efficiency, much less attention has focused on the impact of administrative intensity on municipal performance. In this paper we seek to contribute to the empirical literature by examining the relationship between operational efficiency and administrative intensity in the Victorian local government system over the period 2014/15 to 2018/19 using a second stage bootstrapping Data E…
Council type and the determinants of municipal expenditure
Despite the ongoing failure of ‘one‐size‐fits‐all’ policies in the realm of local government policymaking worldwide, such as municipal mergers, public policymakers across Australian local government, including South Australia (SA), remain committed to uniform policy prescriptions that do not take into account the characteristics of different categories of local authorities. Furthermore, although a substantial body of empirical work exists on muni…
Administrative intensity and financial sustainability
A substantial empirical literature has examined the relationships between organizational characteristics and performance across the public sector, including the determinants of financial sustainability in local government. However, with the exception of one 2020 source, no attempt has been made to investigate the impact of administrative intensity on municipal financial sustainability. To address this gap in the empirical literature, this article…
Administrative intensity and local resident satisfaction in Victorian local government
A voluminous empirical literature has focused on organizational characteristics and their relationship to organizational performance in the public sector, including municipal efficiency. However, as yet no effort has been made to examine the impact of administrative intensity on the effectiveness of local authorities, as measured by local resident satisfaction surveys. To address this gap in the literature, this article investigates the effect of…
Amalgamation in action
Under its Fit for the Future reform programme, in May 2016 the New South Wales (NSW) government forcibly merged a number of municipalities, including the Armidale Dumaresq Council and the Guyra Shire Council in the New England region of northern NSW. Whilst scholarly attention has focused on the likely impact of municipal mergers on council performance at the system‐wide level (Bell, Dollery & Drew 2016; Economic Papers: A journal of applied econ…
Council type and the determinants of municipal expenditure
Despite the ongoing failure of ‘one‐size‐fits‐all’ policies in the realm of local government policymaking worldwide, such as municipal mergers, public policymakers across Australian local government, including South Australia (SA), remain committed to uniform policy prescriptions that do not take into account the characteristics of different categories of local authorities. Furthermore, although a substantial body of empirical work exists on muni…
Amalgamation in action
Under its Fit for the Future reform programme, in May 2016 the New South Wales (NSW) government forcibly merged a number of municipalities, including the Armidale Dumaresq Council and the Guyra Shire Council in the New England region of northern NSW. Whilst scholarly attention has focused on the likely impact of municipal mergers on council performance at the system‐wide level (Bell, Dollery & Drew 2016; Economic Papers: A journal of applied econ…
An empirical analysis of municipal efficiency and local resident satisfaction by council type in Victorian local government
Although a voluminous empirical literature has examined local government efficiency, much less attention has focused on municipal effectiveness and almost no effort has been directed at the relationship between efficiency and effectiveness. In this paper, we seek to add to the latter nascent literature by investigating the relationship between operational efficiency and local resident satisfaction for three different municipal categories (metropo…
Cost efficiency – one size fits all? A university-level analysis of economies of scale and scope in Vietnamese higher education
Like other nations, Vietnam annually subsidies higher education via state budget to maintain academic operations of public institutions. However, the question of how to fairly and appropriately distribute state funding to public institutions is still challenging, therefore unfair distribution to some extent influence their cost efficiency. Using the quadratic cost function with random effects for a panel structure of 2011/12–2013/14, this paper a…
Evaluating the higher education productivity of Chinese and European “elite” universities using a meta-frontier approach
This research focuses on a sample of European and Chinese elite universities for the period 2011–2015. We adopt a meta-frontier methodology to decompose their overall productivity in three main determinants: (1) technical efficiency compared with contemporaneous technology, (2) change in technical efficiency and (3) technology relative superiority of the two groups of universities. The results reveal different patterns of evolution: Chinese insti…
Administrative intensity and local resident satisfaction in Victorian local government
A voluminous empirical literature has focused on organizational characteristics and their relationship to organizational performance in the public sector, including municipal efficiency. However, as yet no effort has been made to examine the impact of administrative intensity on the effectiveness of local authorities, as measured by local resident satisfaction surveys. To address this gap in the literature, this article investigates the effect of…
The impact of rate capping on local government expenditure
In common with higher tiers of government worldwide, Australian state governments often adopt highly interventionist ‘one-size-fits-all’ policies aimed at improving local government efficiency and performance. In this article, we employ recent expenditure data to investigate empirically the short-term impacts of rate capping on municipal expenditure in the Australian state of Victoria and to explore whether it had differential effects on spending…
Administrative scale economies in public organisations
A voluminous empirical literature has examined scale economies in public organisations, particularly in local government. By contrast, little effort has been directed at the empirical investigation of economies of scale in higher education administration, including in Australian universities. To address this gap in the empirical literature, this paper examines administrative scale economies and task density in Australian public universities for t…
Administrative intensity and financial sustainability
A substantial empirical literature has examined the relationships between organizational characteristics and performance across the public sector, including the determinants of financial sustainability in local government. However, with the exception of one 2020 source, no attempt has been made to investigate the impact of administrative intensity on municipal financial sustainability. To address this gap in the empirical literature, this article…
Administrative intensity in local government
A vast empirical literature has investigated economies of scale in local service provision, especially in water and waste management. By contrast, the question of scale economies in local government administration has attracted much less attention, especially in Australian local government. To address this gap in the Australian empirical literature, we investigated administrative scale economies in the New South Wales (NSW) local government syste…
An empirical analysis of the impact of administrative intensity on the operational efficiency of the Victoria state local government system in Australia
While a voluminous empirical literature has investigated municipal efficiency, much less attention has focused on the impact of administrative intensity on municipal performance. In this paper we seek to contribute to the empirical literature by examining the relationship between operational efficiency and administrative intensity in the Victorian local government system over the period 2014/15 to 2018/19 using a second stage bootstrapping Data E…
Administrative Intensity and Financial Sustainability
However, to date no attempt has been made to investigate the impact of administrative intensity on financial sustainability in the university sector.To address this gap in the literature, this paper examines the impact of administrative intensity on financial sustainability in Australian universities over the period 2009/10 to 2018/19.Our findings show that administrative intensity significantly affects the financial sustainability of Australian …
South African Local Government Efficiency and the Effect of Audit Outcome
While extensive research has explored municipal efficiency, the influence of audit outcomes on municipal performance remains underexplored. This study addresses this gap by investigating the relationship between operational efficiency and audit outcomes in South African local government. Using a second‐stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) fractional regression model for the period of 2017–2022, we find that audit outcomes do not have a direct ef…
Navigating the Covid-19 crisis
Extensive research has examined municipal resilience to external shocks; however, quantitative assessments of financial resilience based on performance remain limited. This paper addresses this gap by analysing financial sustainability in Victorian local governments across three phases: pre-crisis (2017/18–2018/19), the COVID-19 pandemic (2019/20–2020/21), and recovery (2021/22–2022/23). Using bias-corrected Data Envelopment Analysis, we find tha…
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