Introduction to data envelopment analysis and its applications

Ali Emrouznejad; Emilyn Cabanda

doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-4474-8.ch004

Introduction to data envelopment analysis and its applications

Ali Emrouznejad^*
, Emilyn Cabanda

^*Corresponding author for this work

Operations and Service Management

Regent University

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18 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

This chapter provides the theoretical foundation and background on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method and some variants of basic DEA models and applications to various sectors. Some illustrative examples, helpful resources on DEA, including DEA software package, are also presented in this chapter. DEA is useful for measuring relative efficiency for variety of institutions and has its own merits and limitations. This chapter concludes that DEA results should be interpreted with much caution to avoid giving wrong signals and providing inappropriate recommendations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of research on strategic performance management and measurement using data envelopment analysis
Editors	Ibrahim H. Osman, Abdel Latef Anouze, Ali Emrouznejad
Publisher	IGI Global
Pages	235-255
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4666-4474-8
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4666-4475-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4474-8.ch004
Publication status	Published - Aug 2013

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Handbook of research on strategic performance management and measurement using data envelopment analysis. ed. / Ibrahim H. Osman; Abdel Latef Anouze; Ali Emrouznejad. IGI Global, 2013. p. 235-255.

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