Measuring the efficiency of heritage institutions: A case study of a regional system of museums in Spain |
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| Institution: | 1. Departamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad, Escuela Universitaria de Estudios Empresariales, Universidad de Valladolid, Paseo Prado de la Magdalena s/n, 47005 Valladolid, Spain;2. Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Escuela Universitaria de Estudios Empresariales, Universidad de Valladolid, Paseo Prado de la Magdalena s/n, 47005 Valladolid, Spain;1. Yango University, Fuzhou 350015, China;2. Yango University Art Department, Fuzhou 350015, China;3. Department of Information Management, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, 807, Taiwan;4. Department of International Business, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung City 807, Taiwan;1. Instituto de Turismo y Desarrollo Económico Sostenible (TIDES), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;2. Instituto Universitario de Investigación Social y Turismo, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain |
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| Abstract: | Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a widely applied tool in efficiency evaluation for public administration, yet has scarcely been put to use in the case of heritage institutions. The goal of the current paper is to evaluate the technical efficiency of a regional system of museums, the hypothesis being that these bodies represent one organization of productive resources (employment, equipment, art collections, and so on), aimed at providing various goods and services linked to their basic functions: conservation, exhibiting, research and dissemination of cultural heritage. Yet, given the diverse nature of this kind of institution, previous sorting and classification is required in order to obtain homogeneous clusters for the various elements. This research therefore merges multivariate statistical techniques to synthesise the initial information and DEA for efficiency evaluation. These findings may prove useful for management of these institutions, as well as for those responsible for public resource allocation policies in the area of cultural heritage. We apply this to a regional system of museums in Spain, which includes both rural and urban museums. |
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