The market concentration on education and the effects on quality

Purpose – The management models adopted by educational institutions undergo changes, much due to the mergers and acquisitions of large conglomerates. Thus, the article aims to analyze the effects of mergers and acquisitions in the Brazilian private higher education sector from 2008 to 2014, considering the courses that presented the highest number of enrollments, as well as academic performance and quality measures.
Design/methodology/approach – The methodology is divided into two stages; first the
propensity score matching (PSM) was calculated to obtain the common support and later the estimation by the differences-in-differences method.
Findings – The results indicate a greater proportion of professors with Ph.D. in Business Administration and Pedagogy and a greater proportion of professors with a Master’s degree in the Business Administration course. The indices evaluated here pointed to a non-significant change in the quality of the students.
Research limitations/implications – The limitations are related to the possibility of
including different courses, besides those that were evaluated as well as the period of
collection.
Practical implications – The implications address the application of the data from
institutions, in terms of management and quality assessments, both from collaborators and clients/students.
Social implications – The social implications highlight the quality of intellectual capital that is offered by the institutions to the Brazilian labor market.

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Higher Education, Mergers and Acquisitions, Service Quality