Introduction to Benchmarking

Peter Bogetoft and Lars Otto ()
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Lars Otto: University of Copenhagen

Chapter Chapter 1 in Benchmarking with DEA, SFA, and R, 2011, pp 1-22 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter gives a overview of the questions and methods covered in this book. What is the idea of efficiency analyses and benchmarking?Why do we benchmark? What are the state–of–the–art methods that we shall discuss in this book? The chapter is mainly conceptual and can be read with a minimum of technical skills. The idea is to get an elementary and intuitive introduction to the subject. Still, to get a flavor of the approach of the book, we do formalize a few simple production economic models.

Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis; Data Envelopment Analysis Model; Stochastic Frontier Analysis; Free Disposability; Relative Performance Evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7961-2_1

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