Improving the discriminating power of DEA: focus on globally efficient units

D K Despotis ()
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D K Despotis: University of Piraeus

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2002, vol. 53, issue 3, 314-323

Abstract: Abstract We introduce in this paper the global efficiency approach as a means to improve the discriminating power of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). To discriminate further among the DEA efficient units, we deal only with the units that can maintain their efficiency score under common weighting structures. Then we proceed further to ranking the whole set of DEA efficient units. We compare the global efficiency approach with the multi-criteria DEA and the cross-efficiency approaches on the basis of characteristic numerical examples drawn from the literature.

Keywords: data envelopment analysis; global efficiencies; discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601253

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