Structural Comparison of Data Envelopment Analysis and Multiple Objective Linear Programming

Tarja Joro, Pekka Korhonen and Jyrki Wallenius
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Tarja Joro: Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Runeberginkatu 14--16, 00100 Helsinki, Finland

Management Science, 1998, vol. 44, issue 7, 962-970

Abstract: The concept of efficiency as it applies to Decision Making Units (DMUs), solutions, alternatives plays an important role both in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Multiple Objective Linear Programming (MOLP). Despite this and other apparent similarities, DEA and MOLP research has developed separately. We show that structurally the DEA formulation to identify efficient units is quite similar to the MOLP model based on the reference point or the reference direction approach to generate efficient solutions. DEA and MOLP should not be seen as substitutes, but rather as complements. We show that they cross-fertilize each other. MOLP provides interesting extensions to DEA and DEA provides new areas of application to MOLP.

Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis; Multiple Objective Linear Programming; Efficiency; Performance Measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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