Modeling business partnerships: A data envelopment analysis approach

Gholam R. Amin and Mustapha Ibn Boamah

European Journal of Operational Research, 2023, vol. 305, issue 1, 329-337

Abstract: Strategic alliances and partnerships including mergers and acquisitions have been a growing trend in many industries in the past decades. There are many studies in the literature emphasizing the importance of business partnerships. However, literature on partnership optimization is quite limited. This paper defines various types of strategic alliance collaborations and partnerships between different decision making units (DMUs) and develops data envelopment analysis (DEA) models to guide partners on how redistributing their inputs and outputs could enhance their performance. The results of this study are useful for companies considering strategic alliances and partnerships to improve competitiveness. An application in banking is used to highlight the advantages of the proposed method in this paper.

Keywords: Data envelopment analysis; Business partnerships; Inverse DEA; Strategic alliances; Decision making units (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2022.05.036

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