Measuring the Efficiency of Turkish Apparel Retailers

Nazan Erdumlu () and Canan Saricam ()
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Nazan Erdumlu: Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Textile Technologies and Design,Departmant of Textile Engineering
Canan Saricam: Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Textile Technologies and Design, Departmant of Textile Engineering

Ege Academic Review, 2013, vol. 13, issue 2, 237-244

Abstract: This study analysed the efficiencies of Turkish apparel retailers in 2010 by using actual retail data based on the research conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and published in Turkish-Time periodical by using data envelopment analysis method in Excel Solver. The efficiencies of the retailers were evaluated in terms of overall technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency. In addition, input targets for each company were calculated in order to identify the improve-ment ratios that each of the inefficient companies can become efficient by achieving these ratios.

Keywords: Apparel; retailing; efficiency; data envelopment analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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