Modelling generalized firms’ restructuring using inverse DEA

Gholam R. Amin, Ali Emrouznejad () and Said Gattoufi
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Gholam R. Amin: University of New Brunswick at Saint John
Ali Emrouznejad: Aston University
Said Gattoufi: Université de Tunis

Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2017, vol. 48, issue 1, No 5, 61 pages

Abstract: Abstract The key consideration for firms’ restructuring is improving their operational efficiencies. Market conditions often offer opportunities or generate threats that can be handled by restructuring scenarios through consolidation, to create synergy, or through split, to create reverse synergy. A generalized restructuring refers to a move in a business market where a homogeneous set of firms, a set of pre-restructuring decision making units (DMUs), proceed with a restructuring to produce a new set of post-restructuring entities in the same market to realize efficiency targets. This paper aims to develop a novel inverse Data Envelopment Analysis based methodology, called GInvDEA (Generalized Inverse DEA), for modeling the generalized restructuring. Moreover, the paper suggests a linear programming model that allows determining the lowest performance levels, measured by efficiency that can be achieved through a given generalized restructuring. An application in banking operations illustrates the theory developed in the paper.

Keywords: Generalized restructuring; Consolidation; Split; Efficiency; Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Inverse DEA; C44; C61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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