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Measuring the efficiency of decision making units

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A nonlinear (nonconvex) programming model provides a new definition of efficiency for use in evaluating activities of not-for-profit entities participating in public programs and methods for objectively determining weights by reference to the observational data for the multiple outputs and multiple inputs that characterize such programs.
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This article is published in European Journal of Operational Research.The article was published on 1978-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 25433 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Programming paradigm & Data envelopment analysis.

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The Case for International Coordination of Electricity Regulation: Evidence from the Measurement of Efficiency in South America

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that, in spite of, and maybe because of, a much weaker information base and governance structure, South America's electricity sector could pursue an approach that relies on performance rankings based on comparative efficiency measures.
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A framework for measuring the efficiency of organizational investments in information technology using data envelopment analysis

TL;DR: In this article, a mathematical programming technique called Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to evaluate the efficiency of IT investments in large-scale organizations, using data compiled for over 200 large organizations. But, despite these substantial investments in IT, empirical studies have not persuasively established corresponding improvements in organazational performance.
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Analysis of the efficiency of local government services delivery. An application to urban public transport

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the efficiency of public and private sectors in the provision of urban transportation services, and conclude that private management of urban transport service is not more efficient than public management.
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Goal programming & data envelopment analysis (GoDEA) for target-based multi-level planning: Allocating central grants to the Greek local authorities

TL;DR: In this paper, an interface between goal programming and Data Envelopment Analysis (GoDEA) is developed to integrate target setting and resource allocation in multi-level planning problems.
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Data envelopment analysis, nondiscretionary inputs and efficiency: an alternative interpretation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) format to show that observed differences in efficiency can be explained in terms of differences in nondiscretionary inputs across firms.
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The Measurement of Productive Efficiency

M. J. Farrell
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Theory of cost and production functions

TL;DR: In this article, a unified treatment of cost and production functions underlie the economic theory of production is presented, and the duality between cost function and production function is developed by introducing a cost correspondence, showing that these two functions are given in terms of each other by dual minimum problems.
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General competitive analysis

TL;DR: General competitive analysis, General competitive analysis as mentioned in this paper, General Competitive Analysis (GCA), general competitive analysis (GCA), GCA, GCA(GCA), GCA
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Cost and production functions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a mathematical interpretation of the duality between cost and production function, and present a heuristic principle of minimum costs and a Cobb-Douglas production function.
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