Managerial Ability Assessment of Turkish State Universities with DEA

In today’s technological era, the need for physical resources and the use of physical resources have decreased extremely compared to the past, especially in universities based on mental craftsmanship. On the other hand, as access to information has reached the same level even in the most remote areas thanks to technology, academic competence has turned into a process completely dominated by the academics’ own initiatives and the institutional culture they operate in. In this context, corporate culture is a phenomenon that can be considered as a function of managerial ability. Consequently, in this study, it is aimed to examine in the context of managerial ability, the state universities in Turkey, under the conditions of equality by technology, transform their existing financial and academic human resources into trained academics, market-oriented workforce and academic influence through academic publications and citations. For this purpose, managerial ability evaluation with DEA initiated by Demerjian et al. will be applied to Turkish State-Owned Universities’. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.