A DEA approach to derive individual lower and upper bounds for the technical and allocative components of the overall profit efficiency

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1907-1916

  Ruiz, J L ^a   Sirvent, I ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

allocative efficiency; data envelopment analysis; minimum distance to the frontier models; overall efficiency; profit efficiency; technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PROFITABILITY;

ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY; DIRECTIONAL DISTANCE FUNCTION; ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; MINIMUM DISTANCE; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PROFIT MAXIMIZATION; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 80053472699     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.2010.140     Document Type: Article

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