An Investigation of the Factors Affecting Institutional Performance: Evidence from Higher Education Institutions

The performance of institutions is squarely anchored with different factors that affect the institutional credibility and success either positively or negatively. The best performance on the part of institutions is the most dynamic issue for the institutions in attaining the desired objectives, ranking, and success. Still, there exists a dynamism that facilitates as well as interrupt the performance of the institutions in which academic, economic, and political aspects are the foremost. These factors are responsible either for the success or failure of higher education institutions in developing countries like Pakistan. In this connection, the present study confirms and validate the existence of the relationship between certain dynamic factors and institutional performance by collecting primary data over questionnaire from respondents hailing from higher education institutions of KP, Pakistan. A total of 325 respondents were selected from the entire population over simple random sampling techniques wherein each member of subset has an equal probability of being selection. Data were analyzed through statistical procedures (i.e., correlation and regression) to examine the hypotheses as developed from the theoretical framework. The results are valuable by providing significant information about the relationship (association, cause and effect) among the research variables and recommendations for future research.